Do you honestly think he has it set up like this?

At 11:04 PM 3/6/2003 -0600, you 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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