DHCP

[bunters]

Excuse my utmost ignorance ....

Given five ip addresses (already configured in the router) from our internet
provider , how do I set up DHCP for my sixty users? I have a firewall
between the router and the servers, one domain controller server 2000, one
exchange server 2000, one sql server 2000.

Thanks for the help,
Bunters

 

[William Hutchison [MSFT]]

Bunters,

One solution would be to setup Network Address Translation (NAT) which will
allow the sixty users (clients/PCs) to share the few network addresses you
have acquired from your ISP. For an overview of Network Address Translation
and how to setup it up as well as its limitations, take a look at this
article
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/nattrnsv.mspx .
Thanks.

 

[mij]

Create a private lan for the users and then use the five
ips for the servers

 

[Guest]

what kind of equipment do you have for your firewall? Moreover, do you have a
router or what kind of device do you have for your internet?

Once you determine that you will need to find out what will act as your
gateway. Genrerally you use a router but you may multi-home your server (not
recomended) and use it as a gateway. This would involve setting one NIC up to
your current internet pipe and then connection your other NIC to a hub and
pointing the gatweay of your 2nd NIC to point to the first nic. Point all
your clients to the IP (static) of your 2nd NIC of your server. If you have a
router you just need ot configure this as your DHCP server and hook a hub up
to it or switch denneding on your throughput needs.