Many a times we wonder about the differences between an Enterprise network and a SOHO network, where the level of expertise, the depth of details and size of the network. For beginners it is not really much of a difference between the two. To start if we talk about the backend Network technologies they are pretty similar to each other, however difference lies in the way of implementation of these backend technologies. Two of the most talked about technologies are DHCP and DNS. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a standard designed to reduce the administration burden and complexity of configuring hosts on a TCP/IP based network. In case you are DHCP server administrator, for SOHO probably you do not want DHCP server support. Administrators generally use DHCP server support to centrally manage IP addressing and other related configuration parameters. There are DHCP relay agents to pass information between servers and Clients. When you add the DHCP server to the network, you create a scope that defines the range of IP addresses that the server allocates to the clients on one subnet. You need to create one scope for each subnet that has clients that is managed using the DHCP Server. It is advisable DHCP server support primarily needs to be taken from Microsoft however you can evaluate some other DHCP server support companies for the same Another network technology to focus is Domain Name System or DNS which was developed because of the need to provide a name-to-address mapping for computers on the Internet. Before DNS was introduced in, the practice of mapping friendly computer names to IP addresses was done mainly through the use of a shared static file, known as a Hosts file, which can also be found on the client machines. As the number of computers on the Internet grew, it became unworkable to have one centralized authority managing a single Hosts file for all Internet hosts. The file became increasingly larger, which made it harder to maintain and distribute to all sites in a current and updated form. To troubleshoot the issues related to DNS one should either be an experienced administrator or should refer to DNS server Support Company. Similar to DNS Microsoft developed Windows Internet Naming System, which provides a dynamic replicated database service that can register and resolve NetBIOS names to IP addresses used on your network. Any company which provided DHCP server support will also be providing DNS server support due to a simple fact that these two technologies goes hand in hand. For more information on DNS and DHCP one can refer to Microsoft website for DNS server support and DHCP server support.
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