Take the 2-minute tour ×  I need to migrate/convert a dhcp
server from linux to active directory. It's currently running
fine on a sles9 box.  There are 136 subnets defined and about
1200 fixed-address reservations. It would be nice if the
existing dhcpd.conf could be scripted...  share|improve this
question Yes, it can be scripted. The flavor of scripting on the
Linux side is pretty flexible. Windows provides netsh for
scripting the import. See this question. –  jscott Jun 10 '11 at
1:38 That's a mighty-large dhcp environment. Do you have any
plan to provide resiliency/failover? –  ewwhite Jun 10 '11 at
12:05 that's a good question. most places i've seen have 2 linux
boxes running and if one goes down the other picks up all the
queries. in my initial reading on the windows way of doing this,
it doesn't appear that simple. Fault-tolerance on Vmware is an
option... –  Richard Jun 11 '11 at 5:17 you can create
redondancy with AD simply... it's in the forest specification
(backup role If I recall good). Look at