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A reliable source has told us 15.1X49-D80 sorts the DHCP issues on the SRX300.


> On 3 Aug 2017, at 14:50, Nick Ryce <nick.r...@commsworld.com> wrote:
> 
> The latest D80 release looks to have fixed the DHCP/subscriber management 
> issues.
> 
> N
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> On 02/08/2017, 18:49, "uknof on behalf of Benny Lyne Amorsen" 
> <uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk on behalf of benny+use...@amorsen.dk> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Den 2. aug. 2017 kl. 18.22 skrev Charlie Boisseau 
>> <charlie.boiss...@commsworld.com>:
>> 
>> We have five or six hundred SRX220 units out in the wild doing DHCP (around 
>> 400 of these doing DHCP relay) and haven’t seen notable issues.  Not sure 
>> what version we’re on, but seems to be stable.  We have only just started 
>> using the 300s but don’t expect them to differ.  Hopefully this isn’t a new 
>> issue with the 300s.
> 
>    The 220’s have rock solid DHCP server and relay. The 300’s do not support 
> that DHCP server, only the modern subscriber management server and helper. 
> The modern server does have one major advantage: It supports 
> routing-instances. However, the disadvantage of not actually managing to 
> serve leases or relay packets renders that advantage somewhat moot.
> 
>    Note: The modern DHCP server mostly works in one specific case, where you 
> have precisely one DHCP pool on the box, with the DHCP server only attached 
> to one interface. That way the server cannot get confused by seeing the same 
> MAC address on multiple subnets. The relay agent is another story, it isn’t 
> reliable even in that case.
> 
> 
>    /Benny
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