dhcpd: failover: link startup timeout ... Failover wont' work ...

[Sten Carlsen]

The roughly half hour difference in times will be significant if these 
two log excerpts are simultaneous.

Sébastien CRAMATTE wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've setup  dhcp 3.1.0 with ldap patch under debian lenny.
> twice daemons on primary and secondary are launched and communications 
> with ldap is fine.
> This server act as main DHCP daemon for  various vlan segment with 
> dhcp relay.
>
> The problem is that "Failover" doesn't works" ...
>
> On the primary
>
> May  3 18:28:16 dhcp1 dhcpd: failover peer failover1: I move from 
> recover to startup
> May  3 18:28:31 dhcp1 dhcpd: failover peer failover1: I move from 
> startup to recover
> May  3 18:28:31 dhcp1 dhcpd: failover: link startup timeout
>
> On the secondary
>
> May  3 19:05:14 dhcp2 dhcpd: failover peer failover1: I move from 
> recover to startup
> May  3 19:05:29 dhcp2 dhcpd: failover peer failover1: I move from 
> startup to recover
>
>
> Using tcpdump I can't see communications between  primary and secondary.
>
> Setup on primary
>
> failover peer "failover1" { primary; address 192.168.0.2 ; port 519; 
> peer address 192.168.03; peer port 519; max-response-delay 60; 
> max-unacked-updates 10; load balance max seconds 3; split 128; mclt 
> 3600; }
>
> Setup on secondary
>
> failover peer "failover1" { secondary; address 192.168.0.3; port 519; 
> peer address 192.168.0.2; peer port 519; max-response-delay 60; 
> max-unacked-updates 10; load balance max seconds 3; }
>
> Subnet are setup as this :
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
> option routers 192.168.0.1;
> option domain-name-servers  84.232.1.100,194.179.1.100;
> pool {
> range 192.168.0.234 192.168.0.244;
> deny dynamic bootp clients;
> max-lease-time 86400;
> default-lease-time 86400;
> failover peer "failover1";
> }
> }
>
> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
> option routers 192.168.2.1;
> option domain-name-servers  194.179.1.100;
> pool {
> range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.254;
> deny dynamic bootp clients;
> max-lease-time 86400;
> default-lease-time 86400;
> failover peer "failover1";
> }
> }
>
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> option domain-name-servers  194.179.1.100;
> pool {
> range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.254;
> deny dynamic bootp clients;
> max-lease-time 86400;
> default-lease-time 86400;
> failover peer "failover1";
> }
> }
>
>
> Not that I've disable the iptables (all policies set to ACCEPT)
>
> Any tips, ideas are welcome
> Thanks
>
>
>
>

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Sten Carlsen

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