How do you test your dhcpd setup?

Leandro ingrogger at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 18:22:33 UTC 2015


It was a little hard for my to make it work.
I could not compile it on 64bits. it worked on i386.
Leandro.


On 17/07/15 14:32, Frank Price wrote:
> Thanks for the tip Leandro.  If I've got the right tool (from 
> Nominum), unfortunately it doesn't work for my OS (Centos 7) and I 
> can't find source.
>
>
> -Frank
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Leandro <ingrogger at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ingrogger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I know exactly how you feel.
>     try dhcperf , its also a benchmark tool.
>     Leandro.
>
>
>
>     On 16/07/15 14:05, Frank Price wrote:
>>     Greetings dhcp-users,
>>
>>     I've recently taken over a pair of ISC DHCP 4.2.5 servers, and
>>     I'd like to know how you test your environment -- both for
>>     troubleshooting and also for validating config changes.  To make
>>     things concrete, let me briefly explain our setup and then what
>>     I'd like to be able to do.
>>
>>     We have about 70 subnets defined, with failover peers on most of
>>     them between our two servers.  Our network (cisco) vlan config
>>     has ip helper-addresses which point to both servers.  Mostly we
>>     do interim-style ddns, although there are some static host entries.
>>
>>     Usually everything works fine, until it doesn't, and every few
>>     months we add a new subnet for a lab or something.  To
>>     troubleshoot, or double-check changes,  I'd like to be able to
>>     simulate a lease request from a client.  Right now what I do is
>>     a) run dhcpd -t against the changes, and then b) stand up a vm on
>>     the new subnet and see what happens.  It would be much nicer to
>>     simply say "pretend you get a request from this MAC on this
>>     subnet, and show me what you'd do."
>>
>>     I've tried dhcping, and it seems to require me to run it from a
>>     server already on the subnet in question -- not quite what I
>>     want, but maybe I just don't understand it well.
>>
>>     Thanks for any advice you can provide,
>>
>>     -Frank
>>     --
>>     Frank Price | R & D Services | Lexmark International
>>
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