[PLUG] Re: Red Hat routing follies

[Felix Lee]

"Michael C. Robinson" <michael at goose.robinson-west.com>:
> I proprose fixing dhcp so that essentially you indicate
> in your dhcp server either that it's authoritative for a 
> certain network or that it's a client/backup of another.  
> Have it when it's not master cache the leases of the 
> master server.  In cases where two dhcp servers claim 
> to be the master of the same network, have one turn 
> off and the other switch to assigning out of a pool 
> of standard non routable private addresses.

ok.  1, see if someone's doing that already.  if not: 2, write a
short description.  3, implement it.  4, make it easy to use,
scalable, and easy to maintain.  5, deploy it.  6, convince other
people to deploy it.
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