ISC DHCP multinode

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > We are doing some research to check for possible implementations and couldnt
> > find any relative info. Basically our scenario is to implement a multi-node
> > DHCP server in HA and load balancing mode and must be able to cater approx
> > 10K requests per second. Our idea was to use ISC DHCp however it seems that
> > its not possible to use more than two nodes. The concern is that the servers
> > won't be able to cater for such load. Any suggestions please ?
> 
> Correct, ISC only support 2 nodes/peers in a failover pair, there are
> no implementations (that I'm aware of) that allow you more nodes than
> this.
> 
> For the 10K figure, is that leases per second or messages per section
> (4 messages per lease)?

See also

   https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-February/017616.html

for some real life numbers.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no