Enabling DHCPd listen on dynamically generated interfaces
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue May 1 15:52:50 UTC 2012
Shankar Bhat wrote:
>1. I've reasonable number (say, 200) of remote clients and if ONE of
>them flap, I'll end up automatically reload/restart of dhcp service
>on my Debian.
>Would this impact dhcp services on existing interfaces ?
Yes, while the server is down, it won't be servicing any requests.
However, for most common configs, the restart doesn't take long.
>2. What is the precise difference between
>"/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart and reload options" ?. Am
>inclined for 'reload', but would love to hear from community.
Have a look at the script - I suspect you'll find they do the same
thing. I've just looked at a box I run with 4.1.1 - it doesn't have
reload, but it does have force-reload which does nothing different to
restart. In any case, the daemon itself does *not* have a reload
option.
>3. Are there any other/ better ways to address above scenarios ?
Have you considered using a relay agent instead ? That way you can
keep the server running. I don't think you'll be able to run one
relay agent per client connection because of the need for each one to
listen on the connection to the server.
BTW - what is the interface type that's dynamically generated ? I'm
assuming not PPP since I didn't think the ISC server works on those.
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