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ITServices90
New Member
February 20, 2023
Question

DHCP in AD or Fortigate?

  • February 20, 2023
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Hi All,

We have a multi VLAN  environment and I've always done DHCP on a windows server and pointed the firewall to just provide relay info.

We have two Fortigates running in HA

Thoughts?

2 replies

Jean-Philippe_P
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
February 23, 2023

Hello ITServices90,

 

I found these documents:

 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-configure-FortiGate-as-DHCP-server/ta-p/197856

 

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.12/cookbook/783526/dhcp-server


Could you please tell me if it helped?


If not, we will find another solution to reply to your answer.

 

Thanks,

Jean-Philippe - Fortinet Community Team
sw2090
SuperUser
SuperUser
February 23, 2023

afaik if you use ad services it is mandatory to do dhcp and dns with the domain controllers. You could then stil  use the FGT as forwarder....

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