DHCP server failover behind relay

Vadym Abramchuk abramm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 06:08:19 UTC 2012


2012/9/6 Glenn Satchell <glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au>

> On Thu, September 6, 2012 7:08 am, Vadym Abramchuk wrote:
> > 2012/9/5 Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>
> >
> >> Vadym Abramchuk wrote:
> >>
> >>  Unfortunally, none of my relay agents can send packets to both servers.
> >>>
> >>
> >> So the proper fix is to get the vendor of the broken relay agent to fix
> >> it
> >> ;-)
> >
> >
> > My local supplier said it's not going to happen. At least before Second
> > Marsian War ends ;-).
> >
> Please see this page, for example. Perhaps it is the same software version
> as your switch?
>
> http://sipi.usc.edu/manuals/dell/6024/cli_html/dhcp.htm
>
> ip dhcp relay address
>
> The ip dhcp relay address global configuration command defines the DHCP
> servers available for the DHCP relay. To remove a server from the
> available DHCP servers list, use the no form of this command.
>
> Syntax
>
> ip dhcp relay address ip-address
>
> no dhcp relay address ip-address
>
>         ip-address—DHCP server IP address. Up to 8 servers can be defined.
>
> HTH.
>
>
Tried this; this way the switch tries to failover DHCP servers in it's own
meaning.
That doesn't work as it sends single packet to only one of servers.

--
wbr,
Vadym Abramchuk
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