Option 50 in failover mode

Abu Abdulla alhanbali montaqa at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 03:53:39 UTC 2011


Any hints please. it's difficult for me to find the information from
the RFCs or the list.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Abu Abdulla alhanbali
<montaqa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i would appreciate if someone can identify the cases where the server
> ignores option 50 "dhcp-requested-address".
>
> i have a failover mode in which the client needs to sustain the same
> IP (if rebooted) as far it is not expired. in some cases the "secs"
> field exceeds the max load balance resulting the other server to
> response with different IP. we implement option 50 in the client and
> now the second server starts to give us the same IP:
>
> - is it guaranteed that this will be the behavior all the time?
> - is this assignment because the two servers are synced and the second
> server is just informing the user that your previous IP is still
> active. what will happens if this is done before syncing? what is the
> period between syncing?
> - will a server ignore option 50 in case the ip is in the backup pool.
>



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