Deployment Guide

Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol

Dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP) is an application layer protocol that dynamically assigns IP addresses and other conguration

parameters to network end-stations (hosts) based on conguration policies determined by network administrators.

An Aggregator can operate as a DHCP client. As a DHCP client, the Aggregator requests an IP address from a DHCP server.

The following types of DHCP commands are described in this chapter:

• DHCP Client Commands

• Other Commands supported by DHCP Client

DHCP Client Commands

• clear ip dhcp client statistics

• ip address dhcp

• release dhcp interface

• renew dhcp interface

• show ip dhcp client statistics

• show ip dhcp lease

Other Commands supported by DHCP Client

• debug ip dhcp client events

• debug ip dhcp client packets

Topics:

• Commands to Congure the System to be a DHCP Server

• Commands to Congure the System to be a DHCP Client

• Other Commands Supported by the DHCP Client

• Commands to Congure Secure DHCP

Commands to Congure the System to be a DHCP

Server

To congure the system to be a DHCP server, use the following commands.

clear ip dhcp

Reset the DHCP counters.

Syntax

clear ip dhcp [binding {address} | conflict | server statistics]

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