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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.itg.ti.com!newsboy.mtc.ti.com!not-for-mail From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: double bootp server problem Date: 26 Apr 1996 15:00:08 -0000 Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4lra08$or4@landru.mtc.ti.com> References: <4lj0a0$bih@news.simplex.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: landru.mtc.ti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22212 comp.unix.bsd.misc:837 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18105 In article <4lj0a0$bih@news.simplex.nl>, Rob Simons <rob@xs1.simplex.nl> wrote: + +Does anyone have another idea ? Maybe make a primary bootp server, +which handles all requests, and the other a secundary which has a +built-in delay or something ? (so the primary will always answer +first, unless it's unavailable) Is there another options for +making them primary/secundary ? So the secundary kicks in when the +primary is dead ? (there would be one bootp server on both sides +of the bridge of course) bootpgw may work for you. It will delay a number of seconds before sending a reply. That's not it's main reason for existence but it sounds like it may be what you need. It comes with recent versions (2.4.3) of bootpd. +Regards, + +-- +/*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ +/* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ +/* ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ------- *\ +/* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ +/*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ -- Rex Fowler http://www.mtc.ti.com/~rmfowler 997-2779 mailto:rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com TI MSG rfow