Failover Configuration

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> I am trying to configure a failover configuration with DHCP 4.1.1. I
> programmed each server with the failover and assigned it to a test subnet.
> However, no matter what I do it just stays in recovery mode and never
> assigns IP addresses. I left it for a good 20 minutes and neither started
> assigning IPs. The primary says that it is "not responding (recovering)" and
> the secondary says that the "peer holds all free leases".

It sure sounds like your failover peers aren't communicating. I would
suggest you run tcpdump/wireshark to see that the servers actually are
able to talk to one another. You should see TCP traffic between port
647 on the one server and port 847 on the other.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no