If you're using Microsoft's DHCP, what about clustering for one option - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958897.aspx
and the basic 80/20 rule for another - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958936.aspx here is the MS best practices write up for DHCP - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc958920.aspx Don K ________________________________ From: Eric E Eskam <ees...@usgs.gov> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:04:47 PM Subject: Re: DHCP Failover Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote on 07/14/2009 02:37:02 PM: > Windows Server comes with a DHCP server. In terms of "failover", there > is no such thing for DHCP. For Microsoft DHCP maybe, but ISC DHCP supports failover: http://www.iqware.co.uk/dhcp-3.php We use it and it works. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~