I have a small network with about 150 users and have recently put in a windows server 2008 machine running the following roles... dc, dns, dhcp. After going through the dhcp setup it is sending those address out to clients, however it doesnt send out the default gateway (router). I had to manually add that to the clent in order to get it out to the internet. Shouldnt the server send that address along with the ip, subnet, etc...? Thanks for any help in advance.... The dhcp settings on the router have been turned off.
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DHCP simply provides an address to the client. It's DHCP options that provide router, DNS, etc to clients. DHCP option 3 is for the router [gateway]. 6 is for DNS
Set your DHCP options to include options 3 and 6 for clients. Below is a link to DHCP options list in IANA.
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Windows Server 2008 DHCP