Interesting question: Why does Windows DHCP server first assign me a lease for only one hour, and after that extend it to one day (or whatever was actually configured in the DHCP scope)? First, let’s see that it really happens as described. Replicating the setup from my previous DHCP posts, I have here two VLANs: […]
This is part three of the DHCP relay mini-series: In this setup we still have two DHCP servers in load balancing configuration, but we also have two routers in the DHCP client subnet acting as DHCP relays. The routers are running HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol) for first-hop routing redundancy, but it’s really not relevant […]
This is part two of the DHCP relay mini-series: In this setup there are two DHCP servers in load balancing configuration, so the DHCP relay has been configured with two DHCP server IP addresses where to forward the DHCP packets to: 10.0.41.10 and 10.0.41.11. The methodology from the first post is followed: the DHCP client […]
This is part one of the DHCP relay mini-series: In VLAN 60 there is a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) client that will try to get an IP address from a DHCP server. There is no DHCP server in VLAN 60, but there is a DHCP relay configured on the router, and it will forward […]
Debian has been my primary Linux distribution of choice since 2003. That’s twenty years! How time flies! I haven’t ever worked as full-time server administrator but running and operating various kinds of systems have always been part of my skills, and it has made it possible for me to leverage wide range of tooling required […]