DHCP question

[y_ladim]

Well Hello, I'm going to put a DHCP server into a Gentoo machine , but in my company there are a Microsoft Active Direcory , and i had readed that if other DHCP server is up and isn't autorized by the Active Directory, the Active Directory atomatic turn off that service .... my questions are: how can I autorize the linux DHCP server in the active directory?, and, if the DHCP isnt autorized by the Active Directory, the active directory can turn off the service?......
Unfortunately, I cant destroy the Active directory ... my superior had told me that if the DHCP can't get autorized, the company wouldn't put the linux servers so i'm very desperate. I hope that someone can help me

Thanks in advance

[think4urs11]

Q1) why a second DHCP server at all? One is enough (backup szenarios taken out of the picture) for nearly every 'non-planet-wide' infrastructure. Just add some more ranges on the first one...

AD can only turn off other dhcp servers which are part of that AD structure. A Linux based DHCP is completely out of reach for this voodoo.
If *might* be possible to hack something so that your Server is AD integrated and can thereby be autorized by AD to serve DHCP but - at least - it gets a bit complicated. You'd need Kerberos authentication up and running and and and
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[DaveArb]

I run a Gentoo DHCP server in a Windows Active Directory domain. I assume your plan is to turn off the Windows DHCP server? Active Directory, at least on W2K server that we use, is not at all hostile to this, it works just fine. You lose the Windows dynamic DNS updates or if possible it would take extra configuration to make work that I've never bothered to do. I use BIND on the same machine as DHCP to provide forward and reverse DNS inside the network, and it all works great.

If you're planning to keep the Windows DHCP running and trying to add an additional one, I firmly agree with Think4UrS11, multiple DHCP servers on one network just doesn't work.

Dave