DHCP Failover and DHCP relay question

Simon Hobson dhcp at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Mar 28 08:27:11 UTC 2006


Darren wrote:

>It gets worse, we have no control
>over  the window's DHCP server, it is managed by a third party.  I
>think, the cable modem DHCP will have a source of some 10.0.0.x network,
>and the client DHCP will have some other public source, so them
>answering the wrong requests shouldn't be a problem.

In that case, IIRC it was in Monty Pythons Holy Grail that the 
following advice was expressed :

RUN AWAY   RUN AWAY  !

Seriously, it's going to be bad enough getting the servers to 
co-operate - doing it when you don't control one of them is going to 
be worse.


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