Downsides to dhcp on fortigate on a smallish network?

[shaoo11]

Reorganizing my network and looking to throw my network gateways and dhcp on a fortigate 100f.

Not a huge network, 5 /25 networks but only about 20 users, nothing crazy.

I know it’s recommended to run on a server but with this small of a network is there any negative to just running it on the fortigate and avoid added complexities of dhcp forwarding.

[abarushka]

Hello,

FortiGate 100F has plenty of computing power to handle 20 DHCP users. You may consider to use FortiGate as DHCP server unless you have some specific requirements.

[Sheikh]

Hi,

Fortigate 100F should be more then enough for your network to serve as DHCP. I would also suggest to have a look at the Max-value-table and search for DHCP 

https://docs.fortinet.com/max-value-table

regards,

Sheikh