How to Bind DHCP service

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Mike Busch

I have a Win 2K server on my network. It's called Ghost
and as I'm sure you can guess it's the server that holds
all our ghost images. Well I didn't set it up but
somehow DHCP is no longer working on it. Basically the
machine has two NICs. One goes to our domain. The other
goes into a hub that I use to transfer the ghost images.
I do this because if I trasnferred the images over
through the LAN the bandwidth used would slow everyone
down dramatically. Using the hub used to work great.

But for whatever reason when I use ghost boot disk on the
target machine it's not getting an address most of the
time.

So to make a long question short, how can I setup DHCP so
it only distributes IPs on the NIC that goes to the hub
and not the one that talks to my LAN?

Thanks,
Mike
 
Each nic must be in a differnet subnet. DHCP will only give out addresses
on the NIC that uses the Subnet equal to what is in the DHCP Scope.

I run Ghost on the same subnet as other things and don't have any trouble.
We use Switches instead of Hubs and I always choose "Unicast" in Ghost
unless I am doing more than one client. If I'm doing more than one client I
then use "Multicast". The Switch will then only run the packets on the
associated Switch ports and the rest of the network has no significant
effect.
 
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Mike Busch said:
I have a Win 2K server on my network. It's called Ghost
and as I'm sure you can guess it's the server that holds
all our ghost images. Well I didn't set it up but
somehow DHCP is no longer working on it. Basically the
machine has two NICs. One goes to our domain. The other
goes into a hub that I use to transfer the ghost images.
I do this because if I trasnferred the images over
through the LAN the bandwidth used would slow everyone
down dramatically. Using the hub used to work great.

But for whatever reason when I use ghost boot disk on the
target machine it's not getting an address most of the
time.

So to make a long question short, how can I setup DHCP so
it only distributes IPs on the NIC that goes to the hub
and not the one that talks to my LAN?

Thanks,
Mike
Click to expand...

In addition to the other response,

Is DHCP on this other private LAN?

Also, I do use Ghost extensively. I've found on mutlihomed machines,
depending on the type of motherboard, some of them will recognize an add-on
NIC before it recognizes an integrated NIC. When this problem occurs, have
you tried switching the wires to see if it connects on the other NIC and
gets an IP?

I also use Bart's bootdisks where it will autodetect all NICs and I can
choose which NIC to load and what protocol to use and will autogenerate a
random computername. Cool tool. I can control it that way as well.

Sometimes I use IPX instead of IP, because you don't have to deal with dupe
names nor getting an IP. I've found IPX is less overhead as well, especially
with large transfers, such as a ghosting session, especially if you have
mulitple sessions and can't multicast (Ghostcast) for whatever reason.

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"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
choose which NIC to load and what protocol to use and will autogenerate a
random computername. Cool tool. I can control it that way as well.
Click to expand...

Where can I find ol' Mr. Bart's Bootdisks. That sounds like the thing to
have. How do they do on Laptops? Laptops are where I have the real grief
with.
 
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Phillip Windell said:
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"


Where can I find ol' Mr. Bart's Bootdisks. That sounds like the thing
to have. How do they do on Laptops? Laptops are where I have the
real grief with.
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As long as the drivers are available at Barts bootdisks, then it will work.
So it depends on the NIC.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/

Little tricky at first. Read carefully on how to do it. Once you get the
hang of it, you'll get addicted.

:-)

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Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies ONLY to the Microsoft public newsgroups
so all can benefit.

This posting is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties or guarantees
and confers no rights.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services

Security Is Like An Onion, It Has Layers
HAM AND EGGS: A day's work for a chicken;
A lifetime commitment for a pig.
 
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