Re: [SLE] Looking for a book that describes highly available DHCP setups

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:17 +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a book that explains reliable and manageable DHCP setups. In
> particular, it should cover installations with failover and load balancing
> configurations of dhcpd. Both static and dynamic addressing is used.

Load balancing? I worked for a company that had over 500 users with over
400 PC's using DHCP in 60 different offices around the country and never
had a load problem running a single DHCP server on a 1.5Ghz Intel
Celeron. As far as "highly available" the server is either available or
you have network issues preventing it from being available.

>
> In addition, an explanation how to integrate and manage an LDAP backend would be
> nice; maintaining the shared configuration in a text file would probably be too
> error-prone.
>
> On my SUSE system, I found the IETF drafts and some example configurations.
> I did not found any more documentation.
> I searched on O'Reilly's Safari for DHCP books,
> but found none that covers DHCP failover.

Search again or give them a call as they are there.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/05/01/FreeBSD_Basics.html is just
one of several links to configuring a DHCP server available.

Also have you tried Google? Found this
http://www.madboa.com/geek/dhcp-failover/ using "dhcp failover" linux
as the search criteria.
Setting up a cluster is another option.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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