No Failover works, Failover does not work

[Buddy Bertram]

Be sure the time is the same on both servers.
Buddy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Loftis" <mloftis at wgops.com>
To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: No Failover works, Failover does not work


> That's DHCPD stating it's in recovery mode.  IE *it* is recovering from a
> failover mode or failure mode or jsut starting up...I *think* it'll clear
> up on it's own after a little while depending upon your timeout settings.
>
> --On May 17, 2006 9:29:38 PM +0300 Shlomo Dubrowin <shlomo at dubrowin.org>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, so I switched the peer ports to 519 and 520.
>> Now, when I try to get an address, these messages were recorded.
>> (Franklin is the primary DHCP Server, the MAC Address listed is my
>> machine, and the IP 10.153.22.1 is the router IP for the VLAN that is
>> configured as the relay agent.):*
>>
>> *messages:May 17 21:18:37 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
>> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
>> messages:May 17 21:18:42 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
>> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
>> messages:May 17 21:18:50 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
>> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
>> messages:May 17 21:19:06 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
>> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
>>
>> So which machine isn't responding?  the machine trying to get an address
>> (the MAC Address) or the cisco router with the IP?
>>
>>   Shlomo
>>
>> On 5/17/06, Shlomo Dubrowin <shlomo at dubrowin.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, I can try that, the documentation I was following said they could be
>>> the same.  thanx.
>>>
>>>   Shlomo
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/17/06, Karen Pachla < kpachla at umich.edu> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > On my configuration, I have primary's port at 519, secondary as 520
>>> >
>>> > Primary:
>>> >         port 519;
>>> >         peer port 520;
>>> >
>>> > Secondary:
>>> >         port 520;
>>> >         peer port 519;
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 20:51 +0300, Shlomo Dubrowin wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Primary Config:
>>> > > -----------------------
>>> > > failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>>> > >         primary; # declare this to be the primary server
>>> > >         address 10.153.100.26;
>>> > >         port 520;
>>> > >         peer address 10.153.100.27;
>>> > >         peer port 520;
>>> > >         max-response-delay 30;
>>> > >         max-unacked-updates 30;
>>> > >         load balance max seconds 3;
>>> > >         mclt 1800;
>>> > >         split 128;
>>> > > }
>>> > >
>>> > > include "/etc/dhcpd.pools";
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Secondary Config:
>>> > > ----------------------------
>>> > > failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>>> > >         Secondary; # declare this to be the secondary server
>>> > >         address 10.153.100.27;
>>> > >         port 520;
>>> > >         peer address 10.153.100.26;
>>> > >         peer port 520;
>>> > >         max-response-delay 30;
>>> > >         max-unacked-updates 30;
>>> > >         load balance max seconds 3;
>>> > >         mclt 1800;
>>> > > }
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > K. Pachla
>>> > LSAIT
>>> > University of Michigan
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>   ,-~~-.___.    ._.
>>> / |  '     \   | |"""""""""|           Shlomo Dubrowin
>>> (  )         0  | |         |             (Sheldon)
>>> \_/-, ,----'   | |         |
>>>     ====        !_!--v---v--"
>>>     /  \-'~;      |""""""""|             shlomo at dubrowin.org
>>>    /  __/~| ._-""||        |          http://www.dubrowin.org
>>> =(  _____|_|____||________|
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   ,-~~-.___.    ._.
>> / |  '     \   | |"""""""""|           Shlomo Dubrowin
>> (  )         0  | |         |             (Sheldon)
>> \_/-, ,----'   | |         |
>>     ====        !_!--v---v--"
>>     /  \-'~;      |""""""""|            shlomo at dubrowin.org
>>    /  __/~| ._-""||        |          http://www.dubrowin.org
>> =(  _____|_|____||________|
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its 
> possessors
> into trouble of all kinds."
> -- Samuel Butler
>
>
>