Planning a Small-scale Strategy for DHCP Servers

For a small LAN that does not include routers and subnetting, the server needs for the network can probably be provided with a single DHCP server.

In this case, planning includes determining the following types of information:

• The hardware and storage requirements for the DHCP server
• Which computers can immediately become DHCP clients for dynamic addressing and which computers should keep their static addresses
• The DHCP option types and their values to be predefined for the DHCP clients

Figure 13.1 A Single Local Network Using Automatic TCP/IP Configuration with DHCP