Actually, Windows Server 2003 allows you to make reservations within an
excluded address range. Thus, you could make reservations on both devices,
as long as you are reasonably sure that no two machines will ever manage to
take out the same address at once... (generally not going to happen, based
on uniqueness of MAC addresses).
A DHCP client generally takes out a lease on the first Offer it receives, so
when your clients are wired, its a matter of response time as to which DHCP
Server it will take a lease from... Try out the split configuration, and
see if it works for you.
Another option: Have you tried your wireless clients with the Linksys' DHCP
Server turned off? If it allows you to associate to the AP portion, and
then allows you to do the DHCP broadcasts onto the subnet, then you may be
home free with just one DHCP Server...
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"Miha Pihler" <mihap-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Not really. Clients use broadcasts to find DHCP server and if two DHCP
> servers respond with configuration they will use first one that responded
> and ignore the second one.
>
> What you can do is have two DHCP at the same time. The only thing you have
> to watch out for is that they don't server same IPs.
>
> E.g. you can give first DHCP a range of IPs from 192.168.1.50-149 and
> second
> DHCP range from 192.168.1.150-254.
>
> One problem is, you can make reservations on only one of them.
>
> Mike
>
>
> "boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I have my file server acting as a DHCP server. All of my workstations
>> receive their IP address from it at 192.168.1.200. It services
>> 192.168.1.100-199. My FW/gateway is at 192.168.1.8
>>
>> I have a linksys wireless gateway that by default is 192.168.1.1 and can
> act
>> as a DHCP server. I can easily change the address of this.
>>
>> Is there any way to make sure that one is only selected if the network
> card
>> cannot find the main DHCP server? Basically I'd like the PC's with
> network
>> cards to go to the file server first. The laptops with wireless cards
> would
>> scan for any dhcp server they could find and that would be the wireless
>> gateway. Is there a way to make this happen?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
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