From: ying chang (ying_c@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 00:53:13 GMT-3
Hi Guy,
I would think you should be able to split the address space by "ip dhcp
excluded-address <begin-address> <end-address>" command between 2 routers so
they each have their own addresses.
Chang
>From: "Lupi, Guy" <Guy.Lupi@eurekaggn.com>
>Reply-To: "Lupi, Guy" <Guy.Lupi@eurekaggn.com>
>To: "'ccielab@groupstudy.com'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: DHCP redundancy
>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:03:31 -0400
>
>Let's say you have 2 routers on an ethernet network, and both of them are
>running a dhcp server for the same network. As far as I know, whichever
>router responds with an address first is the one that the client is going
>to
>take. Is it safe to say that the ping characteristic of the dhcp server on
>the router is enough to assume that the 2 routers will not assign
>overlapping addresses? I want to make sure that if I come across a
>situation in the lab where I decide to use this I can do it knowing that it
>would work in the real world. Or is there a way to configure each router
>to
>hand out half of the addresses so there is no overlap, and then configure
>it
>so that if one router can't fulfill the request it relays the request to
>the
>other router? Thanks.
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