independent servers on same subnet

[Carl Karsten]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>> Those were the 2 thing I thought would work, but I just heard a third, 
>> and dare I say it seems like a reasonable config:
>>
>>>  You are forgetting about redundancy. Many sites will
>>>  replicate reservations across DHCP servers.  You have to do it 
>>> manually,
>>>  but there are tricks.
>>>  I run two DHCP servers without reservations, I just use two scopes that
>>>  don't overlap.
>>
>> It cuts the usable size of your pool in half, cuz if one server is 
>> always faster (like when the other goes down) it's pool is the pool.
>>
>> That is the only down side I can think of.  am I missing anything?
> 
> Yes, that will work IFF you don't care which client uses which server. 
> But in the case originally mentioned, that wasn't the case.

I see what you mean.  I guess in the case I gave there are redundant admins 
doing whatever they want.

> 
> There is yet another way, but it rather defeats the point of DHCP - you 
> can run any number of servers configured with the same static host 
> configs (ie no dynamic ranges).

better than the piece of binder paper with IPs scribbled on it :)

Carl K