Re: Moving DHCP from Netware to FreeBSD

From: knob (hey_at_dontemailme.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:11:25 -0400

james <at> hal-pc.org wrote:

> knob wrote:
>
>> james <at> hal-pc.org wrote:
>>
>>> knob wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to move our DHCP service from a Netware 4.11
>>>> server to a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server. Anyone know the
>>>> best way to accomplish this task?
>>>>
>>>
>>> set up the ISC's DHCP server under FreeBSD and replace your Netware
>>> box with it.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah... and how do I deal with all the currently leased
>> ip addresses?
>>
>
> when they come up for renewal they'll get one from the new DHCP server.
> I've replaced DHCP servers on 2 occastions and all that was required
> was setting the new one up with the same configuration as the old (ip
> ranges, etc) and plug it in in place of the old one. the machines on
> the network will continue to work and renew their lease on the new box.
>

Doing it this way could (and probably would) assign addresses already
allocated to machines that are likely operational.

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