Configuration/DHCP Server Help

Create, modify, and delete DHCP subnets:

To update the displayed settings, click the Refresh button.

To create new DHCP subnet, click the Create button.

To update the displayed settings, click the Modify button.

To remove the displayed settings, click the check box next to the desired setttings, and click the Delete button.

DHCP Server

Default Router

The IP address of the client default gateway.

Network

The IP network address of this subnet.

Subnet Mask The subnet mask associated with the IP interface. The value of the mask is an IP address with all the network bits set to 1 and all the hosts bits set to 0.
Range 1-4 Start

The starting IP address of an address pool in this subnet. If either the start or end range has a value of 0 then the entire address pool is ignored.

Range 1-4 End

The ending IP address of an address pool in this subnet. If either the start or end range has a value of 0, then the entire address pool is ignored.

Sticky Address The DHCP server attempts to assign the same IP address to the same host, if possible, based on hardware address.
Default Lease Time d-h:m:s

The default time, in seconds assigned to a lease if the client requesting the lease does not request a specific expiration time.

Min Lease Time d-h:m The minimum expiration time in seconds that will be assigned to a DHCP lease by the server, regardless of the value specified by a client. Values: -1 to 2147483647. -1 indicates the parameter should be ignored.
Max Lease Time d-h:m:s

The maximum time in seconds that will be assigned to a lease regardless of the value specified by a client. Values: -1 to 2147483647. -1 indicates the parameter should be ignored.
Default: 86400

Boot File

The name of the initial boot file loaded by the client. The filename should be recognizable to the file transfer protocol that the client will be using to load the file.

Boot Server

The IP address of the server from which the initial boot file (specified in the bootfile parameter) is to be loaded.

Primary Name Server

The IP address of the primary domain name server that the client should use for DNS resolution.

Secondary Name Server

The IP address of the secondary domain name server that the client should use for DNS resolution.

External DHCP Server

Enable an external subnet server in order to support DHCP relay agent. Default: 0.0.0.0

Alt-DHCP Server

P address value indicates use of alternate external DHCP server.

Domain Name

The name of the DNS domain.

 

January 22, 2011