Using MPLS Router for DHCP

Ok, at my company we have various offices throughout the country. Currently we are bringing a office online in Florida and deploying our hosted VOIP solution there. Since all of our remote offices (minus 1) have about 5 people working in them, the computers have been setup with static addresses (done this way before I came here). Now the phones (and the phone company) prefer to use DHCP. Is it good practice to use an MPLS router for DHCP? It would be just for the remote offices as I figure the other ones will require us to do the same thing. Thanks!

This might be better suited for the CCIP forum, sorry!

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networker050184

What do you mean by MPLS router?

ColbyG

wat?

You mean use DHCP on your edge router? Are YOU actually running MPLS on anything, or you have an MPLS WAN circuit through an ISP?

the_Grinch

MPLS WAN circuit (I believe) and yes DHCP on our edgerouters at the various office locations. AT&T is our ISP if that is any help.

networker050184

Yes you should be able to run DHCP on your edge router depending on your set up you might need and IP helper address.

ColbyG

You can run DHCP wherever you want really. Most places I've worked have chosen to run it on the (Windows) servers so DNS gets updated. But if there isn't a server at the location they running DHCP on your edge router won't hurt anything, that's what we do for a lot of our small remote sites.

the_Grinch

Cool thanks guys! Yeah we are without a server on-site so we were looking at what options we have.

trackit

Im new to MPLS etc so sorry if i didnt understand, but why is the MPLS in the equation? as far as i understand you are just trying to use DHCP on some remote sites routers? are those routers actually configured for MPLS? isnt MPLS service providers territory? is it common to use MPLS on edge routers? lots of questions lol

i have never encountered MPLS in my work (i dont work for ISP of course)

ColbyG

trackit wrote: »

Im new to MPLS etc so sorry if i didnt understand, but why is the MPLS in the equation? as far as i understand you are just trying to use DHCP on some remote sites routers? are those routers actually configured for MPLS? isnt MPLS service providers territory? is it common to use MPLS on edge routers? lots of questions lol

i have never encountered MPLS in my work (i dont work for ISP of course)

Customers don't typically "see" MPLS, it's run on the SP side. Customers know it's there cause they're part of the MPLS VPN, but they don't actually run MPLS on their routers.