Thread: failover DHCP
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Old 01-16-2008, 11:02 AM
James Carlson
 
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Default Re: Re[2]: failover DHCP

Grzesiek <scss@poczta.onet.pl> writes:

> Hello!
> >> Is DHCP server from Solaris 10 can work with failover DHCP?

>
> > What exactly do you mean? Are you referring to the IETF Internet

>
>
> I mean about this: "DHCP failover is a protocol designed to allow a backup DHCP server to take over for a main server if the main server is taken off the network for any reason. You can use DHCP failover to configure two DHCP servers to operate as a redundant pair."
>
> In the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) DHCP server, which is widely available on Linux and BSD systems,
> server offered failover capabilities,


That's the expired Internet Draft I referred to.

> so I wonder if Solaris DHCP server can do this to?


It can do the same thing functionally, but it does not have support
for the experimental fail-over protocol you're citing.

> Anyway I look at Sun Cluster.


OK.

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