Correct Failover / DHCPOFFER functionality

[David W. Hankins]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:42:42AM +0530, pat wrote:
> If failover is enabled within a pair of DHCP servers why should both servers
> respond to the DISCOVER with an OFFER.
> only the server based on hashing should respond with an OFFER for a DISCOVER
> isn't it ?

  https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2009-June/009458.html

It depends upon the configured 'load-balance-max-secs' and whether or
not the client sends a nonzero 'secs' bootp header field.

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David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
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