Failover strangeness
Greg G
ggersh at ctc.net
Mon Oct 16 13:23:58 UTC 2006
Glenn Satchell wrote:
>> The secondary dhcp server is down, but the running server is still
>> showing as being in communications-interrupted. It never gets to
>> partner-down.
>>
>
> Ahh, didn't realise the second server was down. partner-down mode must
> be set manually. There is one method described in the dhcpd.conf man
> page, by editting the leases file.
>
> It can also be done using omshell. This is from a posting to the list
> in June this year.
>
> Here's the interactive version.
>
>
Thanks. It would be extremely helpful if this information was in the
man page or a doc somewhere.
>> set name = "<failovername>" - the quotes are required here!
>>
*Especially* this bit of information.
>> set local-state = 00:00:00:01
>>
And this. Although I probably would have guess at the format from
the info dump, it's not intuitive that this isn't just a number.
I guess the frustrating part of this is that I have to take this
manual action for the failover to work correctly. That's problematic.
-Greg G
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