Planning a DHCP Strategy

This section provides information to help you plan your DHCP strategy. When planning your implementation of DHCP, consider the following issues:

• Your existing network topology, that is, how you set up your routers and subnets, provides a basic configuration for the distribution of DHCP resources such as Subnet objects, Subnet Address Range objects, and IP Address objects.
• Your existing NDS implementation should be incorporated into your planning. Place the Locator object near the top of your NDS tree where it can be easily accessed by all servers.
• The length of time you set for your leases affects traffic on the network.