re: DHCP Server Performance in Windows Server 2008 R2

teamdhcp — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:00:44 GMT

We have had questions asked of us on the impact of the new link layer filtering (aka MAC address based filtering)on the DHCP server performance.

Based on the testing conducted for measuring impact of MAC address based filtering on performance, we have found negligible performance drop with MAC address based filtering configured.

With 100,000 MAC addresses configured (50,000 each in allow and deny list), the drop in average response time was to the order of 1-2% across multiple test runs.

Prasad