[CentOS] Replacing gateway, is it bad idea?

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Wed Nov 30 10:59:10 UTC 2011


Vreme: 11/30/2011 10:13 AM, Fajar Priyanto piše:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:09 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/30/11 12:59 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>>> How fast the Switches can recognize the new mac? Any other pitfall?
>>
>> within seconds.  or faster.  and the client's ARP caches expire nearly
>> as fast.
>>
>> its not the switches you care about as much as the DHCP leases for your
>> clients.  if you can copy the dhcp leases file over, that will save a
>> lot of grief.
>>

I would suggest installing new gateway as new system, leaving old one to 
work until new one is ready. That way if something goes wrong you will 
still have old one to revert to. Just do not give in working IP's until 
you are ready to switch over.

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