third server

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:46:21 +0100 (CET)
>To: TomSchmitt at gmx.de
>Cc: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: third server
>From: sthaug at nethelp.no
>
>> i got a third location where I want to build up a DHCP-server.
>> My question is: Is it possible, that one server is the failoverpartner for 
more than one server?
>> 
>> So would it be possible that the DHCP-servers in location 1 and location 2 
have both the same failoverpartner, the server in location 3?
>
>Absolutely. One server can have several failover sessions - towards
>different servers, or even towards the same server if that is useful.
>
Each failover pool can only have two servers, but you can have more
than one failover pair. So for example pool X can have servers 1 and 2,
pool Y can have servers 2 and 3, pool Z can have server 1 and 3.

I have also set up a star-type setup with one central server pairing
with a local server in each site. Each of the site dhcp servers is a
server for only the local pool, but the central server is a partner for
all pools.

To set it up requires multiple failover peer definitions.

regards,
-glenn