[CentOS] DHCP failover ... Some questions.

Phil Manuel phil at zomojo.com
Thu Jul 29 12:29:51 UTC 2010


On 29/07/10 9:55 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to reorganise our IP management and I'd like to implement a slave
> DHCP server. Right now we assign IP addresses based on the
> ethernetadress of a client 1:1.
>
> The tutorial here [1] is simple and looks like the thing I need.
>
> I do have a lot of subnetworks and my cisco router has an DHCP helper
> address set. I know I'll have to add the second dhcp-server address.
>
> My questions now is:
>
> Dose the dhcp-slave syncs the dhcp data from the master?
>
> Or do I have to copy the data to the master AND slave?
>
> Any other sugesstions or comments?
>
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> 	Götz
>
>    
Hi,
I thought the latest dhcp server had built-in support for master-slave 
scenarios, it just replicates current status to the slave, and when it 
fails the slave takes over.

Phil.



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