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