Hello,
Quck Background:
In one of my organizations, I have a Windows server 2008 R2 running active directory, DHCP, and DNS. A person there with limited knowledge decided to run DHCP and DNS from an ISP supplied router. He shut down the DHCP and DNS server on the Windows 2008 box. The system has a Rukus wireless systems and he attempted to service over 300 people on a wireless system with the router handing out IP addresses and DNS. This shut down the router when it filled up the ram of the router and DNS fails until the router is reset.
When I attempted to startup the DHCP cerver and DNS on the Windows Server all went well but it didn't hand out any IP addresses. It shows no errors and seems to be running fine. I thought I needed a super scope but it apparently is not true.
It appears I can just set a large scope and it should work, but it doesn't hand out addresses. I have it authorized. It is however, connected to a Cisco managed switch SG500x-48mp that might have the DHCP server designated, can't figure that
out. But the person that set this up lost the login credentials for the Cisco managed switch.
Here is the scope. It's large
Sever address 10.0.0.34
Starting IP address 10.0.0.100
subnet 255.255.0.0
gateway 10.0.0.1
DNS 10.0.0.1
DHCP
10.0.0.100 to
10.0.255.254
subnet 255.255.0.0
Thanks
- LD