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For DOCSIS versions less 3 one can only provide one TFTP server, realized via
option next-server
statement in global.conf. In our setup each of the two DHCP servers sets this to its own IP address.Info check: will this cause problems if the configured server goes offline? Or will CM get new values in DHCPACK from failover peer?
- For higher versions the value in
next-server
can be overwritten usingoption vivso
(125.2: CL_V4OPTION_TFTPSERVERS) – there can be multiple TFTP servers configured. For our system each DHCP server provides its IP address first and the peer's IP address as second.
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