samba - Nov 2014 - dhcp best practice

I have been wanting to allow our routers to continue to serve dhcp thinking
this would give us a safer fail environment. Now we are learning that our
routers can handle creating a whitelist of mac addresses to use for dhcp
leases. So we need to look at alternatives.

I am wondering how many samba AD DC's also run dhcp -- and if there is a
samba 'good practice' for managing dhcp. Yes, I know they are separate
systems. I may be force to run dhcp along side my samba server though and
would like to know what issues I may face.

Also, since we have three campuses, we will be running 3 dhcp servers
needing to share mac address whitelists between them. If anyone has
pointers on setting something like this up, I'd love to read them.

-- 
David Bear
mobile: (602) 903-6476

Hai, 

If have tested some things with samba and DHCP failover. 
DHCP Failover wil i got working, was with samba with BIND9_FLATFILE database
backend,
aka, i didnt get it to work with Bind9_DLZ. (yet)

i have a basic setup for a DHCP on samba, found here. ( this is for 1 server,
tested with samba 4.1.x Bind9_DLZ )
https://secure.bazuin.nl/scripts/  
Base on debian Wheezy. 

(the flatfile setup)
This site was used. 
 http://consultancy.edvoncken.net/index.php/HOWTO_Design_a_fault-tolerant_DHCP_%2B_DNS_solution

I didnt have the time yet to try a dhcp failover with bind9_dlz setup. 
but it should be possible imo. 

and  ;-) if you get it to work, wel.. please share ;-) 

Greetz, 

Louis




>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: dwbear75 at gmail.com [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] 
>Namens David Bear
>Verzonden: maandag 10 november 2014 21:11
>Aan: samba
>Onderwerp: [Samba] dhcp best practice
>
>I have been wanting to allow our routers to continue to serve 
>dhcp thinking
>this would give us a safer fail environment. Now we are 
>learning that our
>routers can handle creating a whitelist of mac addresses to 
>use for dhcp
>leases. So we need to look at alternatives.
>
>I am wondering how many samba AD DC's also run dhcp -- and if 
>there is a
>samba 'good practice' for managing dhcp. Yes, I know they are
separate
>systems. I may be force to run dhcp along side my samba server 
>though and
>would like to know what issues I may face.
>
>Also, since we have three campuses, we will be running 3 dhcp servers
>needing to share mac address whitelists between them. If anyone has
>pointers on setting something like this up, I'd love to read them.
>
>-- 
>David Bear
>mobile: (602) 903-6476
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