On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 07:49, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 16:28, Jan Roehrich wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm trying to configure dhcp failover with 2 dhcp servers but it seems > > that they won't speak with each other. > > I used the example from dhcpd.conf(5) but there are some error log > > messages on both sides. > > > > The primary (which was stand alone before) says: > > vergisstnix dhcpd: failover peer foo: I move from startup to recover > > vergisstnix dhcpd: failover: link startup timeout > > > > while the secondary says: > > verliernix dhcpd: timeout waiting for failover peer foo > > verliernix dhcpd: peer foo: disconnected > > > > My dhcpd.conf files look like that: > > > > ----------------------- > > failover peer "foo" { > > primary; > > address 137.251.44.6; > > port 519; > > peer address 137.251.44.3; > > peer port 519; > > max-response-delay 60; > > max-unacked-updates 10; > > mclt 240; > > split 128; > > } > > include "/etc/dhcpd.master"; > > -------------------- > > > > > > -------------------- > > failover peer "foo" { > > secondary; > > address 137.251.44.3; > > port 519; > > peer address 137.251.44.6; > > peer port 519; > > } > > include "/etc/dhcpd.master"; > > ---------------------- > I assume the ports on both machines need to be different, as in the example in > dhcpd.conf(5) > > cu > ronny You also seem to be delcaring foo twice, one of those should be "bar" or some other name. Luc Bouchard