[ale] Routers, VRRP, and DHCP

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 15:30:23 EDT 2015


On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is fairly standard setup it sounds like. You have a dhcp helper
> config on both routers so that if one router is dead the other still passes
> along the dhcp requests and updates (note that the log should show it from
> the router interface IP and not the vrrp IP). Even though its double talk
> this is what you want to see on the dhcp server log to indicate that this
> is configured correctly.


It does show from the router interface (when I look at a tcpdump of the
traffic). How is it that this wouldn't be causing issues with assignment?
Shouldn't multiple answers from the same DHCP host confuse the clients?

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