DHCP

DHCP

New features in 2008,
  • Full support for stateful DHCPv6 scopes
  • advanced network security with NAP integration
  • DHCP server role can be enabled on Server Core installations
New features in R2,
  • MAC address filtering
  • Name protection
  • DHCP Activity logging
  • Split Scope configuration wizard
 
DHCP scope is a configured range of IP addresses that the DHCP server will allocate to requesting clients.
  • Scope Name
  • Network ID and subnet mask
  • Network Address Range
  • Lease duration
  • Exclusion range
 
Normal scopes are sufficient for most deployments.
Superscopes combine multiple scopes, beneficial for extending an address range
Multicast scopes are a collection of multicast addresses
 
Scope needs to be activated after being created.