Re: Two dhcp servers on same subnet

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From: Stefan Buchman (stefan2002b_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/11/04


Date: 11 Apr 2004 01:01:12 -0700

If your workstations are on the same network segment there is no way
that I know of to do this.

When a client boots and is using DHCP it will send a broadcast out on
the LAN requesting a DHCP server. Whichever server is first to answer
the request gets to handle IP for that client.

For more information on how the request and assignment is made check
out the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;169289

- Stefan

"Joel" <jwolfe(removethis)@digimarc.com> wrote in message news:<e1FrmgOHEHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Hi,
>
> I have two w2k3 servers on the same subnetwork. Both are running the dhcp
> service with different (non-conflicting) ip scope addressing.
>
> What can I do so that workstations a, b, and c always get their addresses
> from Server 1 and workstations x, y, and z always get their addresses from
> Server 2?
>
> I'm pretty sure that I've read about this being possible somewhere but can't
> recall what it is. Thanks for the help. /Joel



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