Robert
Tue Aug 03 12:32:15 CDT 2004
BeamGuy wrote:
> I am on top of administering my PC much more than the IT department,
> though they are starting to catch up. They know of my firewall, and I
> can turn it off if I need them to unlock a password protected
> resource. My firewall allows in VNC, but I changed the password so
> that I can VNC into it as well.
>
> I installed the firewall after having my system trashed by a virus
> when I had ALL the security patches installed - which is about 10-15
> more patches than the average PC around here. The best guess as to
> how it got in was that it found out the administrative password.
>
> So - should I assume that two DHCP servers are expected?
Sure, in a large network its quite common.
Lets say I have a DHCP scope with 4 Class C address ranges, and a need for
redundancy and/or load balancing DHCP. I'd set my 2 DHCP servers so that one
only handed out addresses from the bottom half of that scope and the other
only handed out addresses from the top half of that scope. In the event of
one server catching fire or something i'd already have a working DHCP server
in place which could pick up the slack, the most i might have to do is make
a small change to allow it to hand out addresses that were previously
covered by its now ill partner.
Any help?
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