From: Pilkinton, Scott (SPilkinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 23:22:58 GMT-3
Guy,
This works, I have it running on two msfc's (in seperate chassis) providing red
undant service in a production network. The ping method it uses to determine a
good address hasn't failed us thus far. Your right, both routers will offer a
n address and the client will obviously accept only one.
Scott Pilkinton
Network Engineer
Gaylord Entertainment
-----Original Message-----
From: Lupi, Guy [mailto:Guy.Lupi@eurekaggn.com]
Sent: Mon 4/29/2002 8:03 PM
To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Cc:
Subject: DHCP redundancy
Let's say you have 2 routers on an ethernet network, and both of them a
re
running a dhcp server for the same network. As far as I know, whicheve
r
router responds with an address first is the one that the client is goi
ng to
take. Is it safe to say that the ping characteristic of the dhcp serve
r 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 tha
t it
would work in the real world. Or is there a way to configure each rout
er to
hand out half of the addresses so there is no overlap, and then configu
re it
so that if one router can't fulfill the request it relays the request t
o the
other router? Thanks.
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