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Date:      Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:55:44 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?
Message-ID:  <j061m0$e2l$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <CALJphbv80PEPNPhj0wQ_gvUUkJcFAjq_-hKtxbeY3wJ4F1DcLA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:55 -0300, Rogelio wrote:
R> The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e.
R> handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I
R> was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions
R> that could scale much better?

1. May be it is possible to decrease load of DHCP server by increasing
lease time.
If address pool is the limit, adaptive-lease-time-threshold option in ISC dhcpd may be
useful.

2. Which dhcpd version is used? According to changelog 4.2 has some
performance improvements.

-- 
 Anton Yuzhaninov




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