Can I use my home router to provide IP addresses to "to be imaged" that use PXE

[pbalderos]

I am running Server 2008R2, and for now I have been allowing all of my VM's and Physical lab pcs to get an IP from my home router that I received from my ISP. I am running a lab because I am training for SCCM 2012 and it is required that my DC have DHCP as a role in order to allow pc to PXE boot so they can be imaged. I can easily go into my router and disable DHCP and add the role to my DC but I am unsure as to what scope to give my DHCP server. As it stands now my vm's and pcs are pulling 192.168.1.x from the ISP’s router.

 

Note: I have the DNS role installed on my DC and statically assigned the DC's ipaddress to each vm/pc, as it is serving as my DNS server.

 

[Rocket Man]

Just set up a scope in DHCP on the server like 192.168.1.50----192.168.1.200.......(this will automatically assign 150 dynamic addresses give or take 1 or 2)

Enter in IP forwarders of your ISP DNS settings in the server DNS settings.(make sure they resolve)

Disable DHCP on the router.

You should be good to go!

[pbalderos]

Thanks for the response as always!

 

 

Here is the tricky part I failed to mention.

1) The DC is a virtual machine running on VMware Workstation 9 along with my SCCM 2012 server and a couple of window 7 vm's

2) I also have two physical pc (laptops) that also communicate with the DC.

Now I could change the network setting from NAT (current configuration) to host-only but then that leaves me with the physical laptops being isolated

from the DC and SCCM server.

Any additional thoughts on that?

[Rocket Man]

I also have two physical pc (laptops) that also communicate with the DC.

 

What device are you using to connect the Laptops to your network?

A switch?

The router acting as the switch which will also be your gateway?

 

I see no problem here if the laptops are connecting either way!

I had many similar test labs setup this way. The SCCM server and DC, DHCP and DNS all resided on a single VM on a laptop that had server 2008R2 installed and the Hyper-V role added to support this VM. I had 2-3 laptops connected into the spare ports on my router and everything ran seemlessly, bit slow due to the main laptop only having 4GB of RAM, 1 for the physical role and 3 for the the SCCM, DC and DNS VM.