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by toport

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We have various sites in our organization,
currently we are using manual IP configuration
and want to go over to DHCP. Trouble is that
another site wants to manage our DHCP
leases from another subnet. Would this
mean we would need to enable Bootp on our
routers to lease the IP's Has anyone had any
experience with this and what type of impact
does it have on a network?? Thanks!

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by greybeard770

You will get along MUCH better if you have a DHCP server in each site. The server could still be managed from the home office or wherever. Crossing sites for IP addresses would be a serious performance issue. I would expect problems very quickly,even over a T1.

Routers don't pass BOOTP / DHCP information by default. There are various ways around that. You may need to configure the router to forward port 69 to the DHCP server.

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