NetWork Help

antthisantthis Bowling Green ky
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Ok my lanpartys are getting bigger and Im doing more setting up and less playing - How would i like to setup a dhcp network off a server how would i go about doing that? IS their anything build into xp pro or free side applaction to do this with. I used one of those linksys router for dhcp be it crash on me half way in thur the lan so we went back to static. I have window 2000 adavance server ed too if that has anything usefull in it. Our backbone only 10\100mb fine for game play but when someone getting files of the server something we see some lag. Server has xp pro on it right now. It house dual AMD 2400 mp on a TYAN Thunder k7x PRO (s2469), cool by Voc 1, HAS 1GB Kingston DDR pc2100 register ram, Promise RAID TX4000,A 80 7200rpms 8mb buffer for the os ,5 120GB hd 7200rps 8mb buffer all on Hotswaps, 1GB nic , 2 10/100 nic, 52x cd-rw, with 2 10/100 Nic, Firewire and usb 2.0 for mass external storage. our network is composed of -24 port 10/100 unmanaged switches and a power center. One is a Hewlett Packard ProCurse 2224 the other is a D-Link DES-1024R and a 16 port netgear Fast ethernet switch FS116

This is our setup any ideal to make it faster all around?


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Comments

  • tophericetopherice Oak Ridge, TN
    edited December 2003
    Get a router with a 4 port switch and config the router to perform DHCP. Then connect a switch to each of the 4 ports in the router. Each port in the router should be able to support up to 254 clients.
  • antthisantthis Bowling Green ky
    edited March 2004
    I use to do that but those little router/ switch can't handle network traffic worth a shit
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited March 2004
    antthis wrote:
    I use to do that but those little router/ switch can't handle network traffic worth a shit

    It was probably a faulty router, the size doesn't matter and we do exactly that when I help host an annual overclockers.com LAN party...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Windows 2000 Server:

    Start --> Program Files --> Administrative Tools --> DHCP

    Right click computer --> "Add server", then "this server"


    Create a new "scope"
    Plug in relevant information (use 10.0.0.50 as your starting address and 10.0.0.250 as your end, just to make this easy)

    If you've configured DHCP on your router, you can figure the rest out.

    You'll have to "authorize" the scope the first time it's turned on. This just checks the network for other DHCP servers. Then when the light is "green" you're golden.
  • verselloversello New
    edited March 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Windows 2000 Server:
    You'll have to "authorize" the scope the first time it's turned on. This just checks the network for other DHCP servers. Then when the light is "green" you're golden.

    You just mean enable; 'authorizing' implies adding [Win2k] DHCP into an Active Directory forest, for which you need permission.
  • verselloversello New
    edited March 2004
    antthis wrote:
    network.jpg

    Hey why is your d-link DES-1024 switch (bottom right) connected to two switches?
  • antthisantthis Bowling Green ky
    edited March 2004
    versello wrote:
    Hey why is your d-link DES-1024 switch (bottom right) connected to two switches?


    So my network has more ARP cache entry, yo how would i go about setting thst up with server 2003, or should just not be lazy and google it. lol
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Yeah, I mean it's pretty simple.. If you just try it out, you should be able to figure it out. Google is your friend, too .....
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