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  Introducing DHCP
Subject:   Production Environments
Date:   2003-04-24 08:41:56
From:   dpuryear
Response to: Production Environments

A common solution when using DHCP with servers is to have a reasonable renew time but a long expire time. That way if you lose DHCP service you won't find half of your servers without IP addresses.


You can also easily setup a backup DHCP server that comes online if it detects the primary DHCP server has died. This can be done manually and can be quite effective.


Perhaps an article re: DHCP and servers is not a bad idea.


I personally much prefer to use DHCP when assigning IPs to servers. However, there are some obvious security issues that must be considered.

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