We have about 150 remote offices connected with various ISP's, typically DSL, cable, or a T1. They all have Cisco routers and we use IPSec to tunnel back to our corporate office.
The locations currently all use static IP addresses and we're considering re-subnetting all locations for future growth as well as migrating the site PC's to DHCP.
We do have a few sites which are also using a WLAN, and the routers are configured to forward the DHCP requests to our corporate DHCP server.
My first questions are:
1) How does a single Windows 2003 DHCP server know which scope applies to which remote LAN?
2) Should we use the DHCP server on each router, or forward the requests back to the Windows 2003 server? We're leaning towards the latter for ease of manageability.
3) Can you automatically synchronize a redundant server to the primary (like DNS?)?
Any other concerns or ideas are certainly welcome!
Thanks,
Jim
The locations currently all use static IP addresses and we're considering re-subnetting all locations for future growth as well as migrating the site PC's to DHCP.
We do have a few sites which are also using a WLAN, and the routers are configured to forward the DHCP requests to our corporate DHCP server.
My first questions are:
1) How does a single Windows 2003 DHCP server know which scope applies to which remote LAN?
2) Should we use the DHCP server on each router, or forward the requests back to the Windows 2003 server? We're leaning towards the latter for ease of manageability.
3) Can you automatically synchronize a redundant server to the primary (like DNS?)?
Any other concerns or ideas are certainly welcome!
Thanks,
Jim