"Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
news:xcadnT81GPk9IMfanZ2dnUVZ_ruqnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
>> DNS is provided via ISP and local wireless clients seem to discover dns
>> provided they can either connect to DHCP server direct or are given fixed
> IP
>
> Seem to discover? Uh, this isn't something to be vague about.
>
> I'd much rather have centralized DHCP. One added benefit to this is being
> able to better diagnose networking problems using DHCP leases. The
> machines
> boot themselves as DHCP but get the same IP address every time. This way
> if
> a device is acting up it should be easy to find via logs and such. That
> and
> you can easily see any new devices as they'll show up as new leases, not
> reservations.
>
> There's another point to consider, if you've got fifty machines then
> you've
> got the chance that all routers may, at some point, have to issue leases
> to
> every one of them. Just how large are the subnets?
>
> Feh, the headaches of managing multiple routers aren't worth it. Turn it
> off on them and use a centralized one with leases instead.


Thank you but that is what I am trying to do . If you re-read my earlier
post, I indicate that the client pc's cannot obtain an IP other than ones
which are near the only router rigged up for DHCP.
Or is there something I must do to enable discovery of the DHCP server for
client machines ?



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