Awesome.  I'd like to see that.  We have a second DHCP server, but we have
to manually start it, if the primary is down.

Chris



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>wrote:

> Yep, that's the correct way.  The other thing is that DHCP, if you use
> ISC's DHCP server or others that are RFC-compliant (read:  not
> Microsoft), then you can create multiple DHCP servers on the same
> network that offer out the same ranges.  How is this possible?  I'll
> cover it tonight.
>
> -Tilghman
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-dhcp-failover-on-centos5.1
> >
> >   Interesting thought.  The article above shows one method of setup of
> > servers to failover.
> >   I have no clue if it is right, but it seems to be concisely written
> > and has some good hints.
> >
> >   I don't think it will do 'seamless failover' so you don't know one
> > dropped out, but it should
> > recover nicely as dhcp addresses renew.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Chris McQuistion
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Since the discussion tonight will be around DHCP and DNS, I thought I
> would
> >> ask if anyone has any input on how to set up a failover system for
> DHCP, so
> >> if the primary DHCP server goes down, a secondary server takes over
> (either
> >> active-active, or active-passive)?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >
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