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HI all, <BR>
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If I am understanding the way that DHCP does failover/redundancy correctly, each server will hold on to a set of IP's that it will assign in case the communications link is lost between the two servers. <BR>
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I have a perl program that lists the number of IP's in a scope the results look like this:<BR>
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<B>Size, Used, High, Abandon, %Full, Subnet, Subnet Name </B><BR>
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722 321 321 131 <FONT COLOR="#0000aa">44%</FONT> 10.43.48.0 XXXXXXXXX <BR>
210 86 86 2 <FONT COLOR="#008800">40%</FONT> 10.116.224.0 XXXXXXXX ADMIN <BR>
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so for the admin network, it shows that there are 86 ip's used but we know for a fact that only 6 are in used. So I am thinking that each of the servers is holding 20% of the available IPs. <BR>
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So I am running into a problem, when I have a small network, we reserve the 19 for district use and the last last 24 for local servers and printers. in a /24 network my scope will be 10.116.224.21 to 10.116.224.230 - 210 but the servers must reserve 40 each which bring me down to 130. I have a 4 day lease on the IP's so I frequently run out of IP's, I can lower the lease (Already did it to half the time) but I would like to know if there is a way to reduce the number of IP that is reserved by each server. <BR>
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thanks in advance. <BR>
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Luis<BR>
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Luis Fernando Lacayo<BR>
Chicago Public Schools<BR>
Senior Unix Administrator<BR>
ITS/ UNIX Infrastructure<BR>
Office: 773-553-3835<BR>
Cell: 773-203-4493
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