Hi Guys,
Currently in my office we have one subnet on one VLAN.
We're getting a new network this weekend and this subnet is getting
split up into 3 subnets on 3 VLANS. One subnet per VLAN.
Each subnet/VLAN will be on its own Nortel Passport 8600 switch.
I need to set up a DHCP server to serve each subnet.
I want to have some redundancy/failover.
I've never done anything with DHCP before. What is the best
way to set this up?
I was thinking of setting up one dhcp master server to serve
all 3 subnets. I could use the dhcp forwarding feature of the
8600 switch to forward all dhcp requests to the port the dhcp
server is connected on. I would also like to have a dhcp slave
server that would take over if the primary server goes down.
Is this setup possible?
Has anyone done this kind of setup before? Information on
dhcp master/slave configurations is kind of sparse on the internet.
If someone could point me in the direction of some good docs
on dhcp design and configuration I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Declan.
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Declan Houlihan
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