"ignore booting" and failover?

[Simon Hobson]

Tina Siegenthaler wrote:

>We have this #"!?** Dell server which insist on sending DISCOVERS 
>every minute or so on some virtual interface / MAC address ("BMC"), 
>but we never found out how to disable that. These DISCOVERS are 
>cluttering our dhcp.log, so we'd like to just ignore them and - very 
>important - not to log them, but we don't want to give that MAC 
>address a valid IP. I added "ignore booting" to the host statement 
>of that MAC address, and now at least one of our failover peers 
>indeed ignores that client (and also logs nothing). But the other 
>peer still logs them with this line:
>
>Oct 24 12:50:25 DHCP-0339 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:14:22:72:6d:cb 
>via 130.60.145.1: load balance to peer DHCP-Zool
>
>Hmph. Nearly there, but not entirely. How can I get rid of these, too?


Did you configure it the same on both servers ?

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