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

[David W. Hankins]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:14:36PM +0200, Sébastien CRAMATTE wrote:
> 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

I dunno what's going wrong, but both servers detected a loss of
database, and attempted to recover off of each other.  This won't
work very well.  You might try manually setting the primary
partner-down and see if it will coax the secondary into moving from
recover to recover-wait.

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