problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily* fixed - please tell me the make and model of the primary

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:26:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily*

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem. When I try to do an install (wheezy) on a network with two DHCP

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem. When I try

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/01/12 06:57, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. My understanding is that you need to have some sort of failover setup - so the secondary dhcp server only starts working

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:02:45 +1300, Richard wrote in message 4f060ff5.9050...@walnut.gen.nz: On 06/01/12 06:57, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. My understanding is that you

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
John A. Sullivan III wrote: The problem is when they are administering addresses in the same range. I've not configured DHCP for a long time so maybe this is common now and the problems have all been resolved I believe the problem is sufficiently resolved now. Time has past and this is

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers... (Rick Thomas)

2012-01-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/01/12 20:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily* fixed - please tell me the make

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:04 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote: snip Hmm . . . could you install with a manual IP address and then simply change the configuration once the installation is done? - John Of course. And that's exactly what I usually wind up

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
John A. Sullivan III wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Really, I'm mostly interested in figuring out what's going on and probing to help get it fixed. snip That makes sense. In that case, I would suggest putting a protocol analyzer on the line and see what is happening on the wire - John I

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers... (Rick Thomas)

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 20:02, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/01/12 20:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is