dhcpd upgrade 3.0.6 -> 3.1.2p1

[Darren]

Exactly.  What I'm wondering is, do these configs belong on both peers  
or only on the primary.  It would be nice not to have to maintain 10%  
headroom in order to avoid "peer holds all free leases" especially on  
quite large networks as 10% is quite wasteful there.


On Aug 27, 2009, at 09:18 , sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

>> They were both configured and working correctly under 3.0.6.  I have
>> narrowed it down to adding these configurations to the failover  
>> config
>> as being the problem:
>>
>> max-lease-ownership 1;
>> max-lease-misbalance 2;
>> min-balance 30;
>> max-balance 300;
>>
>> I assume that these belong on both servers?  Or do they only belong  
>> on
>> the master?  The manual isn't clear about this.  Removing these
>> configuration directives seems to resolve the issue.
>
> Removing them means that you get the default values. From the man  
> page:
>
>    max-lease-owner-ship defaults to 10, and max-lease-misbalance
>    defaults to 15
>
> In other words, by configuring them to 1 and 2 you have values which
> are significantly lower than the defaults. This may be the source of
> your problems.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>