Jennifer, the network administrator at a chain of bakery stores called The Cheesecake Factory, recently upgraded the corporate office of a single segmented network to one that supports four separate virtual networks, or Virtual Local Area Network segments (VLANS). Jennifer is very conscious of production change and thus contacted the systems group in order to make sure all the technical aspects of the project were met. Jennifer wanted to make sure that when all the client workstations were on the new network segments, they were still able to gain IP connectivity to the rest of the network as they had before. The Cheesecake Factory has been running a Windows Server Active Directory domain at the Windows 2000 mixed functional level for over two months. Jennifer created four network segments and labeled them VLAN1, VLAN2, VLAN3, and VLAN4.VLAN1 was the original network and hosts the original DHCP server, called SERVER1. Its network address did not change. The systems team decided to put DHCP Relay Agents on VLAN2 and VLAN3, configured to relay DHCP messages to the original DHCP server on VLAN1. Due to a reluctance to permit more DHCP broadcast traffic than the router could handle, Jennifer suggested to her systems team that VLAN4 should host its own DHCP server. The systems group installed another DHCP server on VLAN4, set up the appropriate DHCP scopes on that server and set up the additional DHCP scopes for VLAN2 and VLAN3 on SERVER1.After the work was completed, all clients on all VLANs seemed to be working fine for about two weeks, until Jennifer got a call from the Help Desk stating that the users in the warehouse cannot boot up from their diskless workstations, where they run monthly accounting statistics, but can connect from all other workstations. Jennifer looks at her network diagram and determines that the warehouse is located on VLAN4. She also checks with users in the accounting department on VLAN1 to see if they can connect using their diskless workstations. They tell Jennifer that they can and have had no problems.
What did the systems team most likely forget to do?
- Install a DHCP Relay Agent on VLAN4.
- Configure a BOOTP table on the new DHCP server on VLAN4.
- Replace the router with an RFC 2131 compliant router.
- Cold boot all the diskless workstations.
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