Re: failover and loadbalance for relayed requests

Posted by Steven Carr on Jun 03, 2015; 3:34pm
URL: http://isc-dhcp-users.193.s1.nabble.com/failover-and-loadbalance-for-relayed-requests-tp128p135.html

On 3 June 2015 at 16:45, Sean McMurray <[hidden email]> wrote:
> You define which pools they share and what the
> split is. For example, you could have the primary serve 2/3 of the pool, and
> have the secondary serve 1/3.

That must be the most misunderstood part of DHCP failover.

The split *does not* determine the share of the pool. The pool is
*always* balanced 50/50. The split value determines which peer will
respond to the client based on the hashed value of the client
identifier (MAC address).

Steve
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