dhcp failover

[John Abbott]

we use dhcp helpers on each vlan has anyone got an opinion on this
method? It seems to be working ok at present 
Rgs 
John

>>> anthony <acqant at optonline.net> 07/06/06 4:17 AM >>>
Tony Aldo wrote:
> Hi, I have a 2 node cluster using the Linux HA project.
> I am not using any of DHCP's built in failover features but instead
have
> linux ha manage dhcp by keeping one node running dhcp at a time.
> My question is, how bad is it not to mirror the leases databases
between the
> two servers?
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
>
>
>
Tony,
Why are using HA?  If you have a cluster already running and just want
to put dhcp on the two servers you can do that.  Just create two virtual
ip's and put one real server in each vip pool.  Then run dhcp failover.
Note:  This will only work if your forwarding dhcp requests using udp
port 67.  I'm not sure how well it will work with broadcasts, if at all.



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