[K12OSN] 2 DHCP servers

[Martin Woolley]

On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 9:38 am, Kevin Verheyen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as I'm in a hurry, can anyone point me to a good place to start, if
> you're having yet a windoze DHCP server running on the network, and
> like to run the K12LTSP server with DHCP on that same network?
>
> 2 subnets or?

Our experience shows that you can have as many DHCP servers as you want. We 
have 6 servers for our LTSP clients and each is a DHCP server.  The th
in clients connect to a "random" box when they boot up, so the load gets 
distrubted amongst the servers.  This worked fine under RH9 and now is 
working in a mix of RH9 and FC1 servers, with no special software installed 
to handle the load balancing.  Like the ad says "Isn't it nice when things 
just work?" I haven't fathomed how it all works but I think it probably has 
something to do with the load on the server.  Sometimes the most powerful of 
the servers gets a bit greedy takes more clients, but a quick kick of the 
dhcpd sorts that out.   We also have 2 M$ DHCP servers; one is in the same 
subnet as the aforementioned Linux servers and this works OK too.

-- 
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna



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