DHCP Server for a LAN

[ArmondoGates]

My buddies and I like to do some Gaming at local LANS we are about to set our own LAN up and we would like to have a computer dedicated to DHCP Servering IPs to the computers at the LAN. What is the best software out there? Does Windows 2000 have it built in? should i use that if so? should i use someother software? I dont wanna manually set 50 computers and thats how we have done it in the past, i run a trial version of Vicomsoft DHCP Server once and it worked great but it was on a Cyrix 300 192 megs of RAM running win98 and it flopped out and stopped working. i realize that the pc was a pile of $#%$ and thats the reason it crashed but now ill be running some sort of DHCP on a new p3 500 with 512 megs of ram and ive yet to install and operating system on it so my question is mainly what should i put on it to DHCP and be stable for the network?

 

[Quad]

heheh
this week i'm going a lan, and my buddy who's hosting it set up his own dhcp server. his server box is running linux, so he set up dhcp through there (i have no idea how, i'm a linux newbie)

however, if you use Freesco , it should do the trick just fine. i've only read a bit about it, but apparently it's like a mini linux, where u use a freesco boot disk, and then run a dhcp server from their own interface. i've heard some good things about it. btw, it's FREE

good luck man

 

[loosbrew]

Windows 2000 only has DHCP services in thier server family, not professional. its very easy with server, just install the DHCP service and issue out a range of ip's and viola! its almost done..


good luck
loosbrew

 

[Hoober]

Yeah, and if you don't want to worry about domains and AD 2000 server is a piece of cake to serve out IPs. The other thing you can do is get a hardware router and hook up your switches to it. That'd solve things.

 

[sharkbitz]

Load up a crappy little 486 or better with redhat or mandrake and run linuxconf(if you've never used linux before). Linuxconf is a gui...you can turn on dhcp somewhere in there.

The nice thing about ISC's dhcp server (www.isc.org)...you can statically assign ip's to individual computers by mac addresses, and run several different scopes, and more. The latest beta even supports failover for redundancy. I run a network with about 1500 customers currently using 1 dhcp server (about 25 scopes, 5 class C's).

 

[Quad]

i withdraw my earlier comment about freesco

i just finished setting up my network (dhcp server + nat + dns forwarding) using winroute

easiest thing i ever did.