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? > > > > > > --- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
