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List: dhcp-users
Subject: Re: Quick Failover
From: Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell () uniq ! com ! au>
Date: 2007-05-23 12:51:13
Message-ID: 200705231251.WAA29126 () lager ! uniq ! com ! au
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>Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:45:57 -0500
>From: Keith Neufeld <keith.neufeld@wichita.edu>
>Subject: Re: Quick Failover
>
>On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Glenn Satchell wrote:
>> Except all the clients know the address of the old dhcp server, so
>> when
>> they try to renew by directly contacting the dhcp server they will
>> fail. When the lease expires the client will fall back to DHCPDISCOVER
>> and broadcast for a dhcp server, they will find the new one, and it
>> can
>> give them back the IP address they had before.
>
>At T2 (7/8 of lease duration), they should *broadcast* a DHCPREQUEST
>and renew their leases with no interruption of service, yes?
It's been a long time since I read RFC2131, so forgive my oversite here :)
If the client does behave that way then there should be no problem at all.
regards,
-glenn
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