best practice for moving subnets?
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Nov 17 09:57:03 UTC 2010
Tom Schmitt wrote:
>I don't know if copying the complete leasefile would be a good idea
>in my case. The old serverpair is responsible for a big amount of
>subnets and only a few are to be moved to the new servers.
>
>If I copy the complete leasefile to the new servers, I assume that
>leases from subnets not configured on the new pair would simply be
>dropped, right?
Yes, you will see loads of log messages as the server drops the
leases that aren't valid for any subnet.
>But what about all the host-entries in the leasedatabase? I would
>have to delete them all manually, wouldn't I?
Host entries ?
>And the failoverstatments of the old failoverpair in the
>leasedatabase: Could they lead to problems when the new failoverpair
>is importing the leasedatabase?
Good question. Are they actually used or does the config file take precedence ?
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