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On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote:
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> > We are looking for a way to have DHCP hand out the
> > gateway IP addresses in a flipflop order every time a system makes a
> > request.
>
> Currently this is not supported, although it should be. It could be
> complicated to support, though - the server should send the same
> routers option on DHCPACK as on DHCPOFFER, right? So the server has
> to remember which IP address it used last time it talked to any given
> client. I can think of a way to do this, but I'll have to think
> about it.
The way we do it with our old, trusty CMU BOOTP server we use the
client's IP address mod 2 to decided the order in which the two gateways
are sent to the client.
I.e., clients with odd addresses get routers .1 and .2, clients with
even addresses get routers .2 and .1.
> _MelloN_
>
>
Nico
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Nicolas Williams (x5220, Stamford, CT)
Stamford SysAdmin
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