Comments on: How do I preserve network communication among all schools on the network given the addition of three new routers on the network?

By: labnuke99

labnuke99 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:03:16 +0000

Yes… the DC’s should continue to work as already designed. You will need to check things out though after implementing an IP address schema. DHCP will continue to work but it will require DHCP helper (or relay) on the routers at the downstream sites. The problem with having one DHCP server at the main site though is that client computers won’t be able to get IP addresses if the link to the main site is down. You should implement DHCP on the local DC’s at the sites and use the DHCP server at the main site as a secondary DHCP server with non-overlapping scopes.

By: kevinbeaver

kevinbeaver — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:04:01 +0000

Even though you’ve got fiber running everything I’d think the network would run more efficiently if the schools could talk directly with each other rather than having to go through the CO first. I setup a WAN similar to this in a school district I used to work for and it performed nicely.

By: skenny

skenny — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:11:16 +0000

Each school has a secondary domain controller in it. Will DHCP, which is running on the main server only at the Central Office site still function in this new environment as mentioned above. Will the domain environment with the main domain controller at the central site and a secondary server at each school continue to work in this new environment.