[pve-devel] DHCP server

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sun Jul 20 07:33:08 CEST 2014


> I was thinking of these scenarios:
> 1a) Client broadcast request for IP
> 2a) Each nodes listen so each could give a reply simultaneously!

We know the MAC address of our VMs, so only the node where the VM resides 
can answer.

> 
> 1b) Several clients request for an IP simultaneously
> 2b) Each nodes listen so each could give a reply simultaneously and
> therefore the same IP could be distributed to different clients!

1.) lock file (cluster wide lock)
2.) allocate IP
3.) release lock






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