[PLUG] Re: Red Hat routing follies

[Aaron Burt]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Felix Lee wrote:
> "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.
<snip>

> ok.  1, see if someone's doing that already.

e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=DHCP+Failover

> 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.

Note also that items 2 through 6 can be summarized as "bell the cat."
cf. http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/cgi/aesop1.cgi?1&BellingtheCat


Tux helps them who help themselves,
  Aaron