DHCP-binding states

crashnb manuel.helmbrecht at gmx.de
Mon Oct 20 08:05:05 UTC 2008


Hello,

thank you for your help.
If i had anderstand that correct than is Free and Backup, free leases 
and the others are in that moment are not free.

Regards,

Manuel Helmbrecht
Tim Peiffer schrieb:
> Free and active are polar opposites.  They are the ends of the 
> continuum.  The others fall in the middle.
>
> Free   - Never Used
> Backup - In an active/active load balanced environment, backup is an 
> address that is free but managed by the peer server
> Released - Leased at some point in time, and given back to the pool
> Expired - Leased at some point in time, and the client stopped 
> renewing for at least 2 lease periods.
> Active - Currently in use
>
> Regards,
> Tim Peiffer
> Network Support Engineer
> University of Minnesota/NorthernLights GigaPOP
>
> crashnb wrote:
>> Hello dhcp List,
>>
>> i havt to write a perlscript to check how match ip-addresses are 
>> free. but we have a dhcp-server configurated with failover and 
>> loadbalancing. want to check the dhcpd.leases file for that, but i 
>> don't know what binding state
>> free(i think this lease is free), active(i think this lease is 
>> assigned), expired, released and backup is. can anybody describe me 
>> what this binding states are for.
>>
>> Sorry about my bad english.
>>
>> greetings
>>
>> Manuel
>
>



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