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February 2005 - Posts

How to duplicate reservations from one server to another?

The problematic scenario is the following: There are two DHCP servers serving the same set of subnets. For each of the subnets which is being served by both the servers there are two scopes one for each server. The scopes are configured in a way that
Posted by anto_rocks | 47 Comments

All about the DHCP server callout API functions.

Ah now for the best part. I had always wanted to test this callout API thing. This is perhaps the most powerful way to leverage your Windows DHCP server. With the DHCP server callout, in a way, the whole DHCP server source code is before you for you to
Posted by anto_rocks | 31 Comments

Join me in the chat!

Hi all, My team which is involved in the development of DHCP service is preparing for a upcoming chat session titled: Configuring and Deploying DHCP with Windows Server 2003, Part 3. Date: 3/3/05 Time: 9:30 – 11am PST. Join us to discuss tips, techniques
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All about DHCP vendor classes and user classes.

Fundamentally vendor classes were introduced to re-use the option id’s in a vendor specific way. Since these are options specific to a given vendor and their scope is very limited to that vendor, it cannot afford to have a option in the list 1-255 as
Posted by anto_rocks | 8 Comments

Why are some of the addresses in the Address Leases for a given scope are marked as BAD_ADDRESS in the DHCP snap-in?

Today when I entered my office, the first thing that happened was the admin for our lab was asking me to debug an issue in which the DHCP server which doles out IP Addresses in our lab was out of addresses. This prevents the DHCP clients from joining
Posted by anto_rocks | 4 Comments

How do you find out the instantaneous load of the DHCP server?

Many network administrators would like to know the instantaneous load on their DHCP servers. This is possible on Windows Server 2003. The downside is that this cannot be done directly via the GUI or the net shell commands. You can go to the perfmon by
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