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updated DHCP Server support
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### Can I deploy a DHCP server in a virtual network?
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Azure virtual networks provide DHCP service and DNS to VMs. Client/server DHCP traffic (source port UDP/68, destination port UDP/67) is not supported in a virtual network.
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Azure virtual networks provide DHCP service and DNS to Azure Virtual Machines. However, you can also deploy a DHCP Server in an Azure VM to serve the on-prem clients via a DHCP Relay Agent.
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You can't deploy your own DHCP service to receive and provide unicast or broadcast client/server DHCP traffic for endpoints inside a virtual network. Deploying a DHCP server VM with the intent to receive unicast DHCP relay (source port UDP/67, destination port UDP/67) traffic is also an *unsupported* scenario.
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DHCP Server in Azure was previously marked as unsupported since the traffic to port UDP/67 was rate limited in Azure. However, with the recent platform updates, the rate limiting is removed enabling this capability.
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Please note that the on-prem client to DHCP Server (source port UDP/68, destination port UDP/67) is still not supported in Azure, since this traffic is intercepted and handled differently. So, this will result in some timeout messages at the time of DHCP RENEW at T1 when the client directly attempts to reach the DHCP Server in Azure, but this should succeed when the DHCP RENEW attempt is made at T2 via DHCP Relay Agent (*please refer to the [RFC 2131](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt) for more details on the T1 and T2 DHCP RENEW timers*).
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### Can I ping a default gateway in a virtual network?
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