<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Andale Mono; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Perhaps not ... perhaps if you kept dhcpd.leases~ on the HARD disk .. dhcpd.leases on the RAM disk... some clever symlinking could accomplish that.<br><br><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Don LCTZ Friesen:EX" <Don.Friesen@gov.bc.ca><br><b>To: </b>"Users of ISC DHCP" <dhcp-users@lists.isc.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:11:17 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: DHCP Failover and Performance<br><br><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I was actually not seeking help, just adding to the thread from personal experience.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Andale Mono","serif";color:black"> Maybe do lease file in RAM disk also...</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Andale Mono","serif";color:#1F497D"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Putting your lease file in virtual defeats the purpose and goes against the DHCP RFC that requires the server to ‘Harden’ the lease before offering it. If the server crashes you lose your leases.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Don.</span></p></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>dhcp-users mailing list<br>dhcp-users@lists.isc.org<br>https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users</blockquote><br></div></body></html>