[ale] backup DHCP
Joe Steele
joe at madewell.com
Tue Apr 11 19:43:30 EDT 2006
David Corbin wrote:
> I've had some recent problems with my home network situation. I strive very
> hard to keep it 'reliable' for my wife, as she depend on it for various
> things. Today, one problem that showed up was that she lost her network
> connection. This was because of dhcp 'problems'.
>
> It would be easy enough for me to run 2 DHCP servers, each with different
> blocks of addresses. But surely there is a way to run a "backup DHCP server"
> that uses the same configuration.
>
> Any pointers?
>
I've never played with such a setup myself, but I remember reading about
it once. Take a look at "man dhcpd.conf", and find the heading DHCP
FAILOVER.
--Joe
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