Question

Which high availability DHCP solutions do you think you’d prefer to use in your business and why? What makes it better? Are there any downsides? What makes you choose it over the other solutions? How soon do you think you would notice DHCP going down in your network? How soon would you notice DHCP going down in your home?

Answer 1

DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is a very vital protocol to configure the IPs of systems having transmissions in the network. This allow the network to use many important features like DNS, NTP etc. Whenever we request a connection to any server or website with an aliased name, the request is transfered to a DHCP server. The DHCP server will allot the DNS server, the gateway and other network parameters to estabilish the connection. Then the name is converted to IP address by DNS server and the route is found. In this way a connection is estabilished today.

There are so many DHCP servers today to provide the needs. I would strongly prefer to use Windows server for DHCP purpose. WHat makes it better is the quality assurance and reliability from Microsoft. As it is a well known immortal firm, the service they provide is also very good. A good DHCP server will always let the conection fast and accurate. Windows DHCP servers had took a great step in 2012 for the betterment of their DHCP server as they had a DHCP failure in the same year. After this issue, they are very bothered of the issues that may happen and make sure they wont happen again.

One of other DHCP server provider is Asus. They had a great failure and hardly recovered from it. The confidence and fast recovery of Windows server along with the trust on Microsoft make me decide to choose Windows seerver for any purpose of DHCP.

A DHCP failure can be noted by the server connection problem. Either the system will show a server connection time out or a server not found error. If this error is persistant, we can understand that the DHCP server is going down.