Moving dhcp failover to another network

Glenn Satchell Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au
Tue Jan 5 23:28:25 UTC 2010


Hi John

That is the expected behaviour. Failover is a TCP connection
between the two IPs (or hostnames) you specify in the failover
statement.

regards,
-glenn

>Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:17:54 -0500
>From: John Center <john.center at villanova.edu>
>
>Just to followup, once I changed the addresses in the failover statement 
>& restarted both servers, the new addresses were accepted w/o skipping a 
>beat.
>
>	-John
>
>
>On 01/05/2010 09:01 AM, John Center wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're getting ready to separate our dhcp servers on our voice and data
>> networks.  Today, we have one set of servers serving both the data&
>> voice networks via separate interfaces, with failover running over the
>> voice network interface.  We will install a second set of servers to
>> only serve the voice network, a separate pair for each network.  The
>> first step will be to add the new servers to the voice network.  As a
>> prelude, we would like to change failover to operate over the data
>> network with the existing servers.  Our plan is to simply change the
>> addresses in the failover statement on each server&  restart the
>> servers.  Would there be any problems doing this?  The old servers are
>> running v3.0.5.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 	-John
>>
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