Several people have mentioned clustering software. Does any one have any examples of such a thing that supports v4 and v6?
We have always used the built in failover in ISC dhcpd, and it works nicely. I don't understand why they felt it would not be needed in v6. -Randy On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:31, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > Randy Carpenter <rcar...@network1.net> writes: > > Duplicate assignments are not a problem as long as you ensure that the > client is the same. > > Duplicate assignments to different clients also won't be established if your > standby server has access to an identical lease database at the moment > your clustering software determines that the primary server has failed, > kills the primary, and places the secondary in service. > > A sufficiently long lease duration should also be as good as a static lease, > in that case. > Because all the important details are in the database. > > You don't have to have any coordination in the DHCP software; you just in > some cases, need to exclude the DHCPD daemon from simultaneously being active > on multiple machines. > > > -- > -JH
