The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P80:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 756 Chapter 21 Planning Implementing and Maintaining the TCP IP Infrastructure You should also provide a DHCP server at each location. When you have multiple DHCP servers on your network use the 80 20 rule to balance the load on the subnet 80 percent of the scope will be on the primary server with 20 percent on the other server. The DHCP server must have an interface on each network for which it has a scope defined or you must locate a DHCP relay server on the same subnet as the DHCP clients. If you implement WINS you will need to examine the quantity of data replicated between WINS servers and the cost of WINS reverse lookups from DNS should minimize the number of WINS servers you implement in order to minimize the impact of WINS replication traffic on your network. Use the Help and Support Center on Windows Server 2003 to see examples of performance statistics in a high traffic environment to help you gauge your enterprise needs. Planning Network Traffic Management After you decide where to place your physical equipment the users will begin accessing the services supplied by DHCP DNS and WINS. Other traffic comes from accessing the Internet file sharing and the many other network resources that will be can estimate the amount of traffic at peak times by using some of the utilities provided with the operating system. The tools can be used to create baselines identify the peak network usage areas and identify the traffic sources. You will also need to monitor network traffic and analyze the might be able to identify illicit network access from external sites find Trojan horse viruses that generate broadcast storms or just discover who is actually hogging all that Internet can also determine whether your server-to-server traffic is managed well or if it is necessary to modify the physical location of equipment. Monitoring Network Traffic and Network Devices Every network administrator should be familiar with two key .
