failover and loadbalance for relayed requests

[Steven Carr]

On 3 June 2015 at 16:45, Sean McMurray <sean at mvtel.com> wrote:
> You define which pools they share and what the
> split is. For example, you could have the primary serve 2/3 of the pool, and
> have the secondary serve 1/3.

That must be the most misunderstood part of DHCP failover.

The split *does not* determine the share of the pool. The pool is
*always* balanced 50/50. The split value determines which peer will
respond to the client based on the hashed value of the client
identifier (MAC address).

Steve