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Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?
If No why ?
If yes IP address will conflict or not.

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Last Update: February 11, 2008 Asked by: Pramod

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Submitted by: chandar

No we can't have 2 DHCP servers in one network, coz it is used to provide IP address to the clients. If two server are supposed to distribute at a time there will be a conflict of the given and reserved IP addresses between two distribution points.

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jatinbery

August 05, 2007 06:42:08

chandar

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

No we can't have 2 DHCP servers in one network coz it is used to provide IP address to the clients. If two server are supposed to distribute at a time there will be a conflict of the given and reserved IP addresses between two distribution points.

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August 07, 2007 06:19:18

amjith

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

Yes we can configure 2 DHCP server in a single network. We can configure 2 diff IP pool for each server. if want more details pls contact me amjith @ india . com

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September 06, 2007 10:46:15

amarjeet7

Member Since: August 2007 Contribution: 8

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

We can install 2 DHCP server or more There is no IP conflict because we can define different IP range scope on individual DHCP server.

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September 26, 2007 09:26:39

Techie

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

Yes we can have as many multiple DHCP servers as it can asign IPs from the same scope are different scope. Depends upon the requirement. Like we can have some thing called as stand-by server or secondary server incase the primary fails. Thanks

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November 20, 2007 00:39:37

anil

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

Yes we can have two DHCP servers on a single network all we need is to assign two different range of IP address to both the server but of same class.

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November 21, 2007 08:08:49

anit vohra

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ?

Yes we can create as much scopes on the same network. For this what we have to do:- First we can create more than one scope and afterwards we have to create superscope and merge as much scopes in that. This is mainly use for load balancing of network and fault tolerance.

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February 11, 2008 07:25:26

singhathakur

Member Since: February 2008 Contribution: 8

RE: Can we have 2 DHCP servers within 1 network ? If No why ? If yes IP address will conflict or not.

hi we can have 2 more dhcp in a same network but each dhcp server should be diffrent ip address.other wise network will be colide.

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