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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