Hello, I've inherited a system running DHCP relay agent for 3 subnets on remote sites. All is working well. Although I'm being asked by the network admin to create seperate dhcp server instances on each of the subnets to minimise broadcast traffic across the WAN.

Running DHCP on the router will make the router more busy and consume some additional memory. If that impacts performance it makes it a less good idea. If you want to track DHCP utilization more DHCP servers probably have better reporting mechanisms that the router does for DHCP. Benefits of DHCP - Networking Tutorial One main advantage of using DHCP is that DHCP servers greatly reduce the time required to configure and reconfigure computers on your network. DHCP simplifies administration not only by supplying clients with IP addresses, but also (optionally) with the addresses of the default gateway, DNS servers, WINS servers, and other servers What are the pros and cons of DHCP with reservations via

A Cisco router can be configured as a DHCP Server. There are advantages and disadvantages in making your Cisco router work as DHCP Server. Almost all the features for windows DHCP can be configured on Cisco-based DHCP server. Some of the features mentioned below at Setting IP Range, DNS, IP reservation and excluding IP address

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