On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk">dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">If you run two servers on a network, then you must do one of two things :</div>
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1) Run them as a failover pair so they can manage one set of client addresses between them.<br>
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2) Run them with separate and non-overlapping address ranges so that they don't interfere with each other.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We did that on our campus, and it didn't seem to work. The one</div>
<div>time we ran out of disk space on one of the DHCP servers, we just</div><div>had machines start losing their leases & needing to be rebooted.</div><div><br></div><div>It's also a giant mess to maintain -- as any static assignments have</div>
<div>to be put in the config files on both machines.</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Soren Aalto<br>Director: ICT<br>University of Zululand<br>