[142924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tarko Tikan)
Wed Jul 20 16:18:42 2011
From: Tarko Tikan <tarko@lanparty.ee>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-reply-to: <CALJphbuhBFFPm1_gUr9LJ_6E5aaUcai9d+utdePmrBK3TZ70pw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:18:03 +0300
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hey,
> The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
> handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
> was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
> that could scale much better?
You are doing something wrong:
* turn off ping-check
* use proper raid controller with battery backup (because isc dhcpd does fsync every time it writes to dhcpd.leases)
* ...
* profit
--
tarko
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