Speeding up DHCP PXE - WS2012R2

[CAWJames]

Afternoon all,

 

When we PXE boot, it takes at least 15 seconds before a lease is given/retrieved and the PXE boot commences. Is there any way to speed this up on Windows server? or am I looking at alternative DHCP sources to knock this time down

 

Thanks

 

James

[kmount]

Are you sure it's the DHCP servers fault?

 

I'd be looking at spanning tree on the client port.

[CAWJames]

No I'm not sure This is the same client over and over, I would have thought SP would remember the same port, or does every power cycle cause it to relearn and test? I will check for portfast and see if it is SP.

 

Thanks for the tip!

[cpjitservices]

See if enabling Multicast on the switch helps.