Option 50 in failover mode

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > For the record, lest anyone believe this is universally true - it
> > isn't. It is true if you want "hands off" handling of failures :
> 
> I feel confident saying that most people setting up two dhcpd servers
> in a failover configuration will want it to have hands off handling of
> failures.

I don't feel confident about that at all.

Given that ISC DHCP, until a very recent version, only supported
"hands on" failover, my guess is that most failover configurations
today are "hands on", i.e. no automatic setting of a failed server
in "partner-down" state.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no