Router & Server DHCP

Scenario:

- A network with a DHCP enabled router and a DCHP enabled server. Router
and Server are set to distribute different addresses in the same subnet.

Question:

- Why, when attaching a workstation set to DHCP, does that workstation
always pick the address from the server rather than the router. Always 100%
of the time.

Just curious

A workstation simply broadcasts on the network when it needs a DHCP
server. If you always get an IP from the same DHCP server, it must reply
faster!

"V" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8JidnaBB07Ou8jTYnZ2dnUVZ_q-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Scenario:
>
> - A network with a DHCP enabled router and a DCHP enabled server. Router
> and Server are set to distribute different addresses in the same subnet.
>
> Question:
>
> - Why, when attaching a workstation set to DHCP, does that workstation
> always pick the address from the server rather than the router. Always
> 100% of the time.
>
> Just curious
>
>
>

it may also be you have a smart router. there should only be one dhcp
source on a network. maybe the router recognized that there was another
dhcp source and shut itself off.

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> A workstation simply broadcasts on the network when it needs a DHCP
> server. If you always get an IP from the same DHCP server, it must reply
> faster!
>
> "V" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:8JidnaBB07Ou8jTYnZ2dnUVZ_q-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Scenario:
>>
>> - A network with a DHCP enabled router and a DCHP enabled server. Router
>> and Server are set to distribute different addresses in the same subnet.
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> - Why, when attaching a workstation set to DHCP, does that workstation
>> always pick the address from the server rather than the router. Always
>> 100% of the time.
>>
>> Just curious
>>
>>
>>
>
>

You can also set the rule on the router/DHCP server to allow/disallow IP
address lease to the client in case you want one of them serve the client.

Thanks,
Pankaj



"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> it may also be you have a smart router. there should only be one dhcp
> source on a network. maybe the router recognized that there was another
> dhcp source and shut itself off.
>
> "Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> A workstation simply broadcasts on the network when it needs a DHCP
>> server. If you always get an IP from the same DHCP server, it must reply
>> faster!
>>
>> "V" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:8JidnaBB07Ou8jTYnZ2dnUVZ_q-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Scenario:
>>>
>>> - A network with a DHCP enabled router and a DCHP enabled server.
>>> Router and Server are set to distribute different addresses in the same
>>> subnet.
>>>
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> - Why, when attaching a workstation set to DHCP, does that workstation
>>> always pick the address from the server rather than the router. Always
>>> 100% of the time.
>>>
>>> Just curious
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>