high performance open source DHCP solution?

Tarko Tikan tarko at lanparty.ee
Wed Jul 20 20:18:03 UTC 2011


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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