Failover question
Eric Helm
helmwork at ruraltel.net
Wed Oct 11 13:39:12 UTC 2006
Simon Hobson wrote:
> Eric Helm wrote:
>
>> I have a similar scenario, where have a hundreds of pools with only 1
>> IP address in the range. This is used to assign a static IP based on
>> option 82 information for FTTP ONT units.
>> So far it seems to work fine in a failover configuration.
>> What other ways could be used in this situation?
>
> What about just configuring the same settings on two servers NOT in failover ?
>
> The effect would be similar to using host statements with fixed
> addresses - either server can respond (with the same address) and so
> it doesn't matter that they are not in failover.
>
> This wouldn't work with any client who is allowed more than one
> address - for that you would still need to use failover.
>
> Simon
>
>
Is it a problem to run some pools with failover and some without?
Mostly this would not occur in the same subnet declaration, but it could.
/Eric
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