Can dhcpd4.1-p1 Communicate with dhcpd3.1.3?

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Mon Nov 1 14:53:13 UTC 2010


Glenn Satchell writes:
> This is from the dhcpd.conf man page, please note the last sentence:
> 
> DHCP FAILOVER
>      This version of the ISC DHCP server supports the DHCP  fail-
>      over  protocol  as  documented  in  draft-ietf-dhc-failover-
>      12.txt.   This is not a final protocol document, and we have
>      not done interoperability testing with other vendors' imple-
>      mentations of this protocol, so you  must  not  assume  that
>      this  implementation  conforms to the standard.  If you wish
>      to use the failover protocol, make sure that  both  failover
>      peers are running the same version of the ISC DHCP server.

	Thanks very much. The fact that the lease DB is readable
is great news. I will make sure the dhcp3 system is also down
when the new dhcp4 box comes up. That way we don't start off on
the wrong foot.

Martin



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