DHCP server performance

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Mar 16 10:10:06 PST 2005


On Mar 16, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> Should I dedicate an entire machine to being a DHCP server ?  Or will
> the load be minimal and I can put the DHCP server functionality on my
> webserver ?

A DHCP server is very lightweight, and you can run one on a machine 
used for other tasks just fine.  Unless your other machine is 
overloaded now, it probably won't notice a difference...

-- 
-Chuck



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