DHCP failover doesn't work

[Ronny Buchmann]

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