Maximum Time difference between DHCP primary and DHCP failover Server
glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Mon Jan 18 23:47:50 UTC 2021
On 2021-01-19 05:41, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Kraishak Mahtha <kraishak.edu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What would be the maximum time difference that can be between a ISC
>> DHCP primary and failover server
>
> AIUI, not a huge amount.
>
> But I have to wonder at the question - do you have a problem with
> timekeeping ? NTP will typically keep clocks accurate to millisecond
> accuracy which is a few orders of magnitude better than is needed for
> failover.
>
> Simon
Even if you are on an isolated network with no external access you could
set the two dhcp servers as NTP peers so they were synchronised to each
other.
regards,
Glenn
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