Remember the delay is just so the primary DHCP ack's first. This is the work around so they don't compete. If your DHCP server is sluggish or busy you may have to up the time period a little, and at the same time make sure the clients don't give up (this is quite a while for pc's but sometimes printers/voip devices give up quicker).
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Split Scope DHCP on 2008 R2? I just want to be sure that I understand this feature correctly before I get too excited and look at upgrading our DC's to 2008 R2. I have 2 DHCP servers, let's call them PRI and SEC. I also want to use reservations but in an outage the reservations are something I could live without having available. So I setup DHCP on PRI and configure the reservations. I setup DHCP on SEC with no reservations. I then configure split-scope on PRI using the wizard, and tell it to set the delay on SEC to 1000ms. I now have two DHCP servers, but so long as PRI is running it will always service requests first? Paul ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
