Fwd: Re: Restarting DHCP safely whilst avoiding partner-down state

[Terry Burton]

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From: "Terry Burton" <tez at terryburton.co.uk>
Date: 13 May 2016 21:35
Subject: Re: Restarting DHCP safely whilst avoiding partner-down state
To: <sthaug at nethelp.no>
Cc: "Shawn Routhier" <sar at isc.org>

> On 13 May 2016 at 21:23,  <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

> >> The release notes indicate that a "gentle shutdown" feature was added
> >> in the past and then subsequently removed because the semantics chosen
> >> caused operational issues - but what these were isn't known because
> >> the associated bug report isn't publicly available.
> >
> > See the discussion thread at
> >
> > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-June/017958.html
> > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-July/017970.html
>
> Very useful, thanks.
>
> Shawn: Are you (or someone else) still working on this? If not, I'm
> happy to run with it if we can agree upon a design.
>
> Given the options given in [1] I think I prefer the different signals
> for different uses approach. I would also suggest extending the OMAPI
> interface to provide quick & safe shutdown.
>
>
> [1] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-July/017974.html
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Terry
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