No Failover works, Failover does not work

[Michael Loftis]

That's DHCPD stating it's in recovery mode.  IE *it* is recovering from a 
failover mode or failure mode or jsut starting up...I *think* it'll clear 
up on it's own after a little while depending upon your timeout settings.

--On May 17, 2006 9:29:38 PM +0300 Shlomo Dubrowin <shlomo at dubrowin.org> 
wrote:

> OK, so I switched the peer ports to 519 and 520.
> Now, when I try to get an address, these messages were recorded.
> (Franklin is the primary DHCP Server, the MAC Address listed is my
> machine, and the IP 10.153.22.1 is the router IP for the VLAN that is
> configured as the relay agent.):*
>
> *messages:May 17 21:18:37 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
> messages:May 17 21:18:42 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
> messages:May 17 21:18:50 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
> messages:May 17 21:19:06 franklin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
> 00:12:3f:1a:60:c3 via 10.153.22.1: not responding (recovering)
>
> So which machine isn't responding?  the machine trying to get an address
> (the MAC Address) or the cisco router with the IP?
>
>   Shlomo
>
> On 5/17/06, Shlomo Dubrowin <shlomo at dubrowin.org> wrote:
>>
>> OK, I can try that, the documentation I was following said they could be
>> the same.  thanx.
>>
>>   Shlomo
>>
>>
>> On 5/17/06, Karen Pachla < kpachla at umich.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On my configuration, I have primary's port at 519, secondary as 520
>> >
>> > Primary:
>> >         port 519;
>> >         peer port 520;
>> >
>> > Secondary:
>> >         port 520;
>> >         peer port 519;
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 20:51 +0300, Shlomo Dubrowin wrote:
>> >
>> > > Primary Config:
>> > > -----------------------
>> > > failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>> > >         primary; # declare this to be the primary server
>> > >         address 10.153.100.26;
>> > >         port 520;
>> > >         peer address 10.153.100.27;
>> > >         peer port 520;
>> > >         max-response-delay 30;
>> > >         max-unacked-updates 30;
>> > >         load balance max seconds 3;
>> > >         mclt 1800;
>> > >         split 128;
>> > > }
>> > >
>> > > include "/etc/dhcpd.pools";
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Secondary Config:
>> > > ----------------------------
>> > > failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>> > >         Secondary; # declare this to be the secondary server
>> > >         address 10.153.100.27;
>> > >         port 520;
>> > >         peer address 10.153.100.26;
>> > >         peer port 520;
>> > >         max-response-delay 30;
>> > >         max-unacked-updates 30;
>> > >         load balance max seconds 3;
>> > >         mclt 1800;
>> > > }
>> >
>> > --
>> > K. Pachla
>> > LSAIT
>> > University of Michigan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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