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