dhcpd: failover: link startup timeout ... Failover wont' work ...

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sat May 3 20:02:41 UTC 2008


> Using tcpdump I can't see communications between  primary and secondary.
> 
> Setup on primary
> 
> failover peer "failover1" { primary; address 192.168.0.2 ; port 519; 
> peer address 192.168.03; peer port 519; max-response-delay 60; 
> max-unacked-updates 10; load balance max seconds 3; split 128; mclt 3600; }
> 
> Setup on secondary
> 
> failover peer "failover1" { secondary; address 192.168.0.3; port 519; 
> peer address 192.168.0.2; peer port 519; max-response-delay 60; 
> max-unacked-updates 10; load balance max seconds 3; }

Obvious questions are:

- How are your interfaces configured on primary and secondary?
- Can you ping the secondary from the primary (and vice versa)?

It sounds like normal communication between primary and secondary
isn't working - and then obviously failover isn't going to work.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


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