moving subnet to another server

[Niall O'Reilly]

At Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:26:18 +0000,
Simon Hobson wrote:
> 
> Bob Harold <rharolde at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Be sure that both DHCP servers are set "not authoritative;" for
> > this subnet.  If they are set to "authoritative;" then they will
> > tell the client that there is no IP available.
> 
> I'm not sure about that.
> From memory ...
> It needs to be authoritative so that it will nack a request for an
> invalid IP - ie one that's not a valid address for the network.

  My memory tells me what Simon wrote.

  "Authoritative" is a good protection against any rogue DHCP server,
  and should only cause problems if a legitimate subnet is omitted
  from its place in the configuration of one or other of the DHCP
  servers.

  ATB
  Niall O'Reilly