omshell failover-state confusion [was: partner-address]

[Glenn Satchell]

Hi Gordon,

I seem to remember this being mentioned once before. I don't recall the
answer, but you may find something in the archives.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dhcp-server&m=99866681128606&w=2

hmm, and the answer was not terribly helpful :)

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dhcp-server&m=99866986408218&w=2

I started looking at the source but you quickly get bogged down. I did
confirm by using a packet sniffer that the data on the network
corresponds to what omshell prints out, so omshell itself seems to be
clear - it must be a problem with the way data is being stored or
returned within the failover or omapi parts of dhcpd itself I think.

regards,
-glenn

>From: "Gordon A. Lang" <glang at goalex.com>
>To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>Subject: omshell failover-state confusion [was: partner-address]
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:43:28 -0400
>
>Can anyone tell me how to interpret the "local-address" and 
>"partner-address" parameters reported by omshell for the "failover-state" 
>object?
>
>I would ordinarily assume the colon-separated hex values would be the IP 
>Addresses of each machine, but the output I am getting doesn't even come 
>close to what my actual IP Addresses are, and therein lies the confusion.
>
>please help please!
>
>--
>Gordon A. Lang
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Gordon A. Lang" <glang at goalex.com>
>To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:31 AM
>Subject: partner-address
>
>
>> omshell is providing local and partner addresses on the primary as 
>> follows:
>>
>> partner-address = 00:15:02:b0
>> local-address = 00:15:02:80
>>
>> and on the failover partner as follows:
>>
>> partner-address = 00:14:21:e8
>> local-address = 00:14:21:b8
>>
>>
>> These addresses, in any typical mutation, do not resemble any of the IP
>> addresses on either server (the dhcp addresses are 192.168.104.11 and
>> ...21).  Are they supposed to -- (the man pages suggest they should)?
>>
>> How do I interpret these colon-separted addresses?
>>
>> --
>> Gordon A. Lang