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dt987
Jul 11, 2017Aspirant
Failover UDP DHCP relay M4300-52G-PoE+
Hi All, I'm currently using UDP DHCP relay on M4300-52G-PoE+ switch to point to a DHCP server in our network per VLAN interfcae, server itself is Windows 2012R2 VM. DHCP works perfectly fine. No...
JohnC_V
Jul 12, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi dt987,
I don't think that it is recommended to have a failover on DHCP. As the DHCP server doesn't have the capability to detect if it still online or not. This will only cause an IP conflict on your network. It might be better if you will just set the clients that you have to static ip in order to retain the IP addresses. Even if it fails, it still have its own IP.
Regards,
dt987
Jul 12, 2017Aspirant
Well, that would be true if DHCP servers are not on Windows 2012R2 in DCHP failover cluster:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338978(v=ws.11).aspx
DHCP servers will constatnly sync leased IP addresses so there will be no confilct in case of failover.
So the question remains if it's possbile to add two DHCP UDP relay on Netgear VLAN interface
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- JohnC_VJul 14, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
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