DHCP optino

Question

hi my question is how can i turn on option 60 in scope option without installing WDS service in my windows server 2019

Original case link:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d93bec6e-dfcc-4551-a5d1-60682ea41ac2/dhcp-optino?forum=winserver8gen

Answer 1

Hi,

In regard to your issue of ‘DHCP option60’ , I want to confirm these questions:

1. How many servers do you have? Did you deploy server 2019 as the DHCP server but don’t want to install WDS service on the same server?
2. Because option 60 is set in order to tell clients where to find the WDS server. So if you don’t want to install WDS on DHCP server but still want option 60 to be add, it seems don’t make any sense.
3. If you have two server, one( server 2019) is DHCP server, but you don’t want to install WDS service on it. Then you can install WDS on the other server without adding option 60.
4. If you have two server, you have to make sure that the clients and WDS server are in the same subnet, otherwise, you need to configure the DHCP relay agent on the router to forward the DHCP message from clients to the WDS server.

For more details, you can refer to the following link:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8a8db9bd-45ce-41da-a541-66b0cb86e090/wds-setup-with-separate-dhcp-server?forum=winserversetup
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/24d9f1c9-464a-4d7e-96ab-0340898b65ad/pxe-server-on-different-subnet-from-dhcp?forum=winserverNIS

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Best regards,
Gloria