Chapter 10. DHCP
In Chapter 2, you were introduced to the core concepts of a DHCP implementation. Understanding the data flow and relationships existing on a DHCP infrastructure, as with all network services, will go far in allowing you to quickly find the source of a problem. DHCP is significantly different in architecture from the services examined in the previous two chapters. Primarily, each DHCP server maintains its own local data and does not replicate information with other DHCP servers. Looking at this concept from the positive side, you can say that no replication means one less thing that can break. While this is true, don’t forget that no replication may also mean that you have a single point of failure. To eliminate this, most organizations ...
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