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high performance open source DHCP solution?

Subject: high performance open source DHCP solution?
From: tarko at lanparty.ee (Tarko Tikan)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:18:03 +0300
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References: <CALJphbuhBFFPm1_gUr9LJ_6E5aaUcai9d+utdePmrBK3TZ70pw@mail.gmail.com>

hey,

> The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
> handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
> was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
> that could scale much better?

You are doing something wrong:

* turn off ping-check
* use proper raid controller with battery backup (because isc dhcpd does fsync every time it writes to dhcpd.leases)
* ...
* profit

-- 
tarko

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- high performance open source DHCP solution?
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