Secondary DHCP Server

[ingenious7]

We are running our DHCP service from Mac OS X Server 10.5.6.

Recently this has been dropping out due to an underlying problem on the server. What I want to know is how easy is to to set up a secondary DHCP server on another one of our Mac OS X 10.5.6 servers. Does anybody know the steps. I have exported the config from the first server, and imported it into the second, but am hesitant to enable the server, as I am sure there must be more steps to it.

Cheers.

[ingenious7]

Hi MacTroll,

Thanks for your reply. I want to have both servers running at the same time to increase redundancy especially if nobody from IT is here to switch on the secondary service.

Current lease time is set to 1 day. I am under the impression that the DHCP servers should be intelligent enough not to issue an IP address that already exists on the network and has been issued by another DHCP server.

The servers won’t need to be configured to “talk” to each other to share information?

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