Watching performance on a DHCP Server

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> Th numbers I'm quoting are performance figures from the dhcperf testing 
> tool. If your 100k users were to be down 24 hours (due to regional power 
> failure, massive server/network failure), how would your DHCP server 
> cope with 100K requests at once? This thread is not about 'normal' 
> conditions, it is about the extreme cases that administrators (at least 
> good ones) are expected to design for and accommodate ahead of time.

I'm planning for the extreme cases by having a redundant server (RAID,
redundant power etc), and soon DHCP failover. I'm *not* planning for
our DHCP infrastructure to cope with 100K requests at once, since I
find such a scenario highly unlikely (even considering the failures
that you have mentioned above).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no