independent servers on same subnet
Carl Karsten
carl at personnelware.com
Sun Jul 13 17:09:02 UTC 2008
Simon Hobson wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> Those were the 2 thing I thought would work, but I just heard a third,
>> and dare I say it seems like a reasonable config:
>>
>>> You are forgetting about redundancy. Many sites will
>>> replicate reservations across DHCP servers. You have to do it
>>> manually,
>>> but there are tricks.
>>> I run two DHCP servers without reservations, I just use two scopes that
>>> don't overlap.
>>
>> It cuts the usable size of your pool in half, cuz if one server is
>> always faster (like when the other goes down) it's pool is the pool.
>>
>> That is the only down side I can think of. am I missing anything?
>
> Yes, that will work IFF you don't care which client uses which server.
> But in the case originally mentioned, that wasn't the case.
I see what you mean. I guess in the case I gave there are redundant admins
doing whatever they want.
>
> There is yet another way, but it rather defeats the point of DHCP - you
> can run any number of servers configured with the same static host
> configs (ie no dynamic ranges).
better than the piece of binder paper with IPs scribbled on it :)
Carl K
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