Upgrade from 3.1.0 to 4.1.1

Abu Abdulla alhanbali montaqa at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 08:30:34 UTC 2010


thanks all for help. yes all our users are coming from relay agents so
i think i will try first to patch the code for USE_SOCKETS. if i
didn't succeed, i will just have another NIC.

thanks again

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:23 PM,  <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
>> >this is for shared network for the same DHCP instance. i'm trying from
>> >another DHCP
>>
>> You cannot have two instances of a DHCP server on the same physical
>> interface. Since the DCHP service uses broadcasts with no destination
>> IP address, there is absolutely no way to differentiate which
>> instance any inbound packet should go to.
>>
>> That means you'll need a second NIC for the second DHCP instance.
>
> Agreed. *Unless* he can do without the regular DHCP server handling
> of broadcasts (e.g. if all requests are sent via a relay agent), in
> which case it is possible to run several DHCP server instances using
> USE_SOCKETS and the local-address parameter.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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