DHCP Server

Documentation

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/install-configure-dhcp-server-workgroup

Tags

Network

Objective

Set up a DHCP Server on SVR-01

Have a pool of ip addresses to assign

Have PC-01 receive an IP address dynamically

Procedure

Add Roles and Features look for DHCP Server

Post configuration required - click on more

creates security groups DHCP Admins and DHCP Users

creates security groups DHCP Admins and DHCP Users

Create the scope (Pool of addresses)

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Setting the scope to 50 usable IP addresses that can be dynamically assigned

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Select option to configure DHCP options that the server will hand over to clients

Default gateway

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Next is DNS server - by default the server you added this role to is added

Activate the Scope

Conclusion

PC-01 currently has an APIPA address before DHCP server was configured

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After configuration the client now has an IP of 10.0.0.50 and it’s DNS server is 10.0.0.1

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Back in SVR-01 we can see that IP 10.0.0.50 is assigned to the client

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