Re: two DHCP servers working?

Erikas Aras Napjus <erikas+@cmu.edu> Thu, 03 October 1996 21:06 UTC

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> Since the DHCP server keeps track of what IP's it has given out, 
> how will TWO SERVERS be able to know what each other has done?

Ah, you see the nature of the problem. :-)

> CMU's DHCP has SNMP built in.  Is that how they talk?

We've theorized that the SNMP interface could be used to synchronize
databases between two DHCP servers, but haven't actually implemented
anything to do that. Since 98% of our nodes are static assignments, we
currently use two DHCP servers with only static assignments and only one
DHCP server with dynamic assignments. But synchronization is something
we'd love to do at some point the future, potentially using SNMP or
whatever standard server-to-server protocol may be developed.

--- Erikas