I do not know to much about this but if your are using different address pools 
like you have stated this is how is see it:

In order to have a conflict the DHCP discovery algorithm would have to find a 
second instance of the DHCP server after finding the first one :-) Sounds 
like a Microsoftian Alnorythm.

?

Alvaro

On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:04 pm, -ray wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >
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