Migrating from a Cisco Routers DHCP to ISC DHCP
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Oct 19 12:40:58 UTC 2009
Zemke, Kai wrote:
>One thing I'm thinking of is the question: is there a way to keep
>the old ip dhcp binding table from the cisco router? And maybe copy
>it to the isc dhcp server?
>Or what ways are pefered to make all clients get a new ip address on
>the new server. So that there are no adresses on the net twice
>because the lease hasn't expired yet
>but the server offered this ip to a new client because he just
>wasn't aware of an old lease.
There are several ways to do this, what will work for you depends on
your network and clients.
One technique would be to shorten the leases on the old server -
working progressively in stages until you are down to a few minutes.
Then at a quiet time turn off the Cisco server, wait for the
configured lease time, and turn on the new server. All clients will
see a network outage as their leases expire, but will then renew with
the new server. For most clients, they will get their old address
back - they'll request it from the server and since it should be free
then that address will get assigned by the new server.
Another technique would be progressively reduce the size of the pool
(IIRC add to the excluded address range(s)) on the Cisco server, wait
for the leases to expire, and then add those addresses to the new
server. Any clients with addresses in the bit of pool that you chop
off will be forced to get new leases - either different addresses
from the old server, or from the new server. Over time you can force
all the clients over to the new server. You can speed things up by
cutting down lease times on the old server in advance, and minimise
impact by timing the alterations so that leases will expire during
quiet times.
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