[CentOS] high performance open source DHCP solution?

Wed Jul 20 03:47:28 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 7/19/11 9:54 PM, Rogelio wrote:
> The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
> handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
> was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
> that could scale much better?
>
> (Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like Nominum, but
> I know that's asking for much.)
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?

That's the first I've heard of scaling/performance problems - writing the syslog 
entries are about the most work it does.  What kind of hardware and how much RAM 
does the server have?   My first thought would be to use a 2nd system which you 
probably want for failover in any case.

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   Les Mikesell
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