[ale] backup DHCP

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

David Corbin wrote:
> I've had some recent problems with my home network situation.  I strive very 
> hard to keep it 'reliable' for my wife, as she depend on it for various 
> things.  Today, one problem that showed up was that she lost her network 
> connection.  This was because of dhcp 'problems'.
>
> It would be easy enough for me to run 2 DHCP servers, each with different 
> blocks of addresses.  But surely there is a way to run a "backup DHCP server" 
> that uses the same configuration.
>
> Any pointers?
>   
I've never played with such a setup myself, but I remember reading about 
it once.  Take a look at "man dhcpd.conf", and find the heading DHCP 
FAILOVER.

--Joe