dhcpcd-discuss

Re: clarification of failover

Roy Marples

Sat Apr 09 15:23:33 2011

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 14:53 -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote:
> I'm planning to deploy a second dhcp server in failover configuration in 
> the near future and want to clarify something(s) right quick.
> 
> 1) do the failover pair ensure that the remaining IPs are at least 
> approximately balanced?  IE: when there are 100 IPs, each will have 
> about 50, and when there are only 20 IPs available each will have 
> approximately 10 ?
> 
> 2) there's no officially supported way to store and issue leases and 
> other configuration in either mysql or openldap or similar database 
> backend ?
> 
> 3) assuming there's no way to use mysql or openldap, do static leases 
> have to be present in both dhcp server configurations, and if so, what's 
> the standard procedure for updating them without downtime ?

I think you want an ISC DHCPd mailing list.
This list is for dhcpcd, a DHCP client only.

Thanks

Roy


References:
clarification of failoverChrist Schlacta
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