PATCH for server/dhcp.c

Ted Lemon mellon at fugue.com
Tue Mar 21 20:07:45 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:58, Brian T wrote:
> Ok, that makes sense kind of.  Why would you ever want 2 separate DHCP
> servers on the same subnet?  Isn't that asking for an
> administrative/troubleshooting
> nightmare?

Redundancy - if one server is down, the other answers.   And no, it's pretty 
easy to manage.   Failover is a little harder to manage, but does a better 
job of sharing the address pool.


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