failover

[richard lucassen]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:41:57 +1100
Glenn Satchell <glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au> wrote:

Indeed, it works like a charm now :-)

> Hi Richard,
> 
> That makes sense. The dh client will request the last IP address it
> had, and the DHCP server should try to allow this if possible.
> Without an existing lease file, the server now sees identical
> requests from either server, so can give them back the same address.
> 
> Now the dhclient.eth2.leases file will have the same IP address on
> both servers.
> 
> regards,
> Glenn
> 
> On 2022-01-29 00:55, richard lucassen wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:44:24 +0100
> > richard lucassen <mailinglists at lucassen.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Why is the dhcp server providing two different addresses?
> > 
> > Apparently it was the client side /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth2.leases
> > file. I threw these away and now it works :)
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