Why not? We have two DHCP servers on our network that have been reliably serving a few thousand clients for years now. They use different address pools. Nothing in the RFC that i know of says you can't have multiple servers. When a client does a DHCPDISCOVER it is allowed to receive and process multiple DHCPOFFER's, possibly from different servers. The client gets to pick who he responds to (with DHCPREQUEST). In my experience, Windows clients will either pick the first DHCPOFFER that comes through, or choose the server that they got a lease from last time.
The ISC dhcpd 3.x server does have options to allow multiple servers to share the same address pool. The servers talk to each other over tcp sockets about who is doing what. I haven't experimented much with these features though! -ray On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 05:46 PM 3/5/2003 -0600, you wrote: > > >I think I got that. I am probably better off starting over and > >following the OpenBSD docs word for word. Perhaps the fact that I have > >two dhcp servers on the same network makes it suck. I just dont want to > >take down the network for too long to install the firewall, but I will > >probably have to. > > Wait. How can you have two? > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
