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

Joachim Schrod wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>> Joachim Schrod wrote:
>>
>> We don't actually use a redundant DHCP setup - I just tested it a
>> while
>> ago. IMO, there is little need for a redundant DHCP setup - clients
>> will keep their addresses after they have expired even if they can't
>> get an ACK.
>
> We had a server outage not long ago, and the clients reconfigured
> themselves to 169.254.* addresses after the lease expired. This
> enabled me to convince the management that budget for redundancy is
> needed.
> The reconfiguration was done due to the APIPA feature of Windows.

Ah, now it makes more sense (not Windows, but your need for HA DHCP).
We have only very few Windows-clients, so ...

> [*] http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/w2knoaip.html

Good link, thanks.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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