Hi! On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Gabriel Kerneis <kern...@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote: > More seriously, you can have as many servers as you like, but be aware > that: > 1° the client will pick ONE server (the closest) and get every > information from it. Consequence: you cannot use one server to > distribute ip addresses and another one to distribute the dns and > ntp servers. > 2° the client will try to stick with one server as much as possible. If > this server is unavailable when the lease expires, it will look for > another one. > 3° as a consequence, if you want to have several servers, you should: > - duplicate the ipv6, dns and ntp fields on every server, > - split your ipv4 address range in n (where n = your number of > servers) and make each one distribute leases for (1/n)th of the > range. This is due to the lack of synchronisation between the ahcp > servers (necessary to survive a network split).
OK. But what is then difference with running a dnsmasq on every node with DHCP where every node has its own IPv4 pool for clients? dnsmasq does not yet support IPv6 but is this then the only difference? Mitar _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
