Multi-server pool question.
Phill Harvey-Smith
phill at bio.warwick.ac.uk
Fri Feb 13 11:33:58 UTC 2009
Hi there,
We run three DHCP servers on our departmental Linux machines which hand
out addresses for some 500+ machines, laptops and printers.
Up until now we have statically assigned IP addresses to MAC addresses
in the dhcp.conf file. This has the advantage that no un-registered host
will get an IP addresss, which helps to prevent un-authorised computers
being used on our network.
However recently we have been running short of IP addresses so would
like to move over to pool asigned IPs for the laptop machines, as it is
unlikley that these will all be connected at once, we intend to leave
the printers and desktop machines statically assigned.
I have worked out how to do this, and have this working in a test
environment, however, I can see that having a pool of addresses assigned
by multiple servers could cause problems with one server assigning an
address to one machine and another server assigning the same address to
a different machine.
Is there a way that I can resolve this issue, bu configuring the servers
to share pool information, or will I have to reserve allocation of the
pool addresses to only one of the servers but let the others also manage
the statically assigned ones.
As the dhcp.conf files are built from a MySQL database using in-house
writen php code, whatever solution is best should be prety easy to
implement.
Cheers.
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Computer Technician,
Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University.
Email: phill at bio.warwick.ac.uk, Phone: 024 7652 8385.
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