Quick Failover

[Simon Hobson]

Benjamin Wiechman wrote:

>For a quick and dirty transition to a new dhcp server I should be able to do
>the following correct?
>
>
>1)       Shut down dhcpd on old machine
>
>2)       Ensure that new server is listening on correct eth interface
>
>3)       Copy dhcpd.conf, dhcpd.leases, and dhcpd.leases~ to new server
>
>4)       Point my ip helper address at the new server
>
>5)       Start dhcpd on new machine

Yes (you don't need dhcpd.leases~)
But I wouldn't call it "quick and dirty", it's quick but by no means dirty.