using of DHCP Failover Protocol

[Hunter Fuller]

If ISC DHCPd failover makes you nervous, consider doing your failover
at a lower level, if you are running in a virtualized environment.
VMware and Xen infrastructures can both do this.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1013428
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Remus


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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Meike Stone
<meike.stone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Infoblox told in 2007, that they have made significant improvements to
> ISC dhcpd regarding DHCPFO protocol (draft-ietf-dhc-failover-12).
>
> You can read this here:
> http://www.lex.com.gr/downloads2/InfoBlox/SolutionNote_DHCP%20failover%20and%20Infoblox.pdf
>
> * My first question is, did ISC fix this issues as well?
>
> I'm a little scared about using dhcpfo in production environemnt
> because of the big number of
> states and handling of them in case of error....
> It seems that the setup is quit simple, but the handling is really complex.
>
> * So, my second question is, has someone experiences with ISC dhcpfo,
> are there anywhere
> good documentation for handling?
> * And can anyone recommend or has anyone bad experiences with this
> implementation?
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Meike
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