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Can Cisco add a DHCP Delay to the next RV320 firmware?

bob.hornick
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When multiple DHCP servers are used for redundancy in a split-scope DHCP address space, typically one response more quickly than the other in order to have one DHCP server hold most of the leases.

In a small network, there is one main, Active Directory DHCP and DNS server. The RV320 can be used as backup to provide and alternate DHCP server and provide an alternate DNS server address when the main DNS and DHCP servers go down. This allows machines not needing the Windows server to still access the Internet, including cell phones and non-cell tablets.

It would be a useful feature.

Normally, when everything is working right, the main DNS and DHCP servers should be invoked, but this can only happen if the main DHCP server responds first, ie, with no delay. Although a delay can be set in a Microsoft DHCP server, we cannot currently set a delay in the RV320.

It would increase the utility of an RV320 to be able to set a DHCP delay of a few milliseconds so that when the main DHCP and DNS server is operable, it can respond to DHCP requests normally. When it is down, and no DHCP request is answered within the RV320's timeout period, then the RV320 can provide an alternate set of addresses. Once the normal DHCP server is operable, and a user wants to connect back into the main DNS address space, it is a simple matter of disabling wireless and then re-enabling wireless to get the main addresses again.

This is standard in DHCP servers but not, apparently in the RV320.

Can someone tell me how to ask Cisco to add this feature?

Thanks,

Bob.

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