Yes, but also you feel pain immediately once your DHCP server is down. If you give it a leasetime of 2 days you have one day to get the server back up.
To answer your question I would go for option B, ie no exclusion ranges, but give A range 1-50 and B range 51-100. René From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over We have a large number of freelancers and transient workers. With long lease times we sometimes hit the limit of the lease range on the server. Keeping it short means that the IPs are available again for us more quickly. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 15 September 2008 12:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DHCP fail-over Why are your leases so short?? S From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DHCP fail-over Hi chaps, I'm looking at setting up DHCP failover on our two servers here so that if one goes down (as it did this morning) the DHCP leases wont expire and chop off the workstations at the legs. On the web it seems fairly easy in 2003 so thats a good thing. However can someone confirm something for me? It seems to be that I need to add both machines to the DNSUpdateProxy group and that each machine needs to be (can be) setup using the same scope details. However, each machine needs to have excluded the other machines part of the IP range ? That is, if serverA does .1-.50 then ServerB needs 1-50 in the exclusion and if ServerB does 51-100 then ServerA needs 51-100 in it's exclusion. Is that right? My question is really whether it has to be an exclusion or whether I can simply set the range up each box so that A has a range of 1-50 and B has a range of 51-100. Any ideas ? Olly *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
