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Is it possible to make dhclient work on a network of Red Hat 7.2 boxes? Problem: frequent power outages Symptom: the RH 7.2 boxes stay offline after outage Analysis: LAN has a single DHCP server which is slow to come up. RH 9 comes up OK because it has dhclient, and most everything else on the LAN retries until the dhcp server comes online. I've done a fair amount of googling and it seems there are a lot of complaints about RH 7.2's dhcpcd setup but no obvious solutions. It would be more than a little bit of work to overhaul everything to a newer distro. Related question: what are the pitfalls of setting up a second DHCP server on a LAN? I don't think it's possible to set up a secondary to serve dynamic pool addresses but it should be possible to service known MAC addresses with 'static' IPs kept in dhcpd.conf. -rich
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