Migrating DHCP servers

[Simon Hobson]

Peter Rathlev wrote:

>I was thinking we could start the new server and let it take any new
>clients. After this we turn off the old server (or rather: disable the
>now migrated scopes) and expect it to either NAK requests or not answer
>them at all, thus forcing the clients into broadcast mode.

If you have the address space then that is a reasonable way to do it. 
Just make sure you don't have overlapping ranges between the servers 
as that's just asking for pain !

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