baitprasad wrote:
Hi,
I have windows 2003 server is it possible to make it DHCP server ? If its possible how to achive redundancy in it?
Regards,
Prasad Bait
Yes it's possible and in fact WIndows probably has the best DHCP server. For redundancy you could have 2 DHCP servers and split each subnet in half so one server is responsible for half the subnet and the other server responsible for the other.
.On the L3 switch you would simply configure ip helper-addresses under the L3 vlan interfaces eg -
int vlan 10
ip helper-address 192.168.5.10
ip helper-address 192.168.6.10
where 192.168.5.10 and 192.168.6.10 are the IP addresses of the DHCP servers.
As for setting it up it is fairly intuitive as it is all GUI based on Windows. If you need instructions best place to look would be on technet which can be found on the microsoft website - www.microsoft.com.
Jon
