Users Guide

Configuration Tasks
To configure DHCP, an administrator must first set up a DHCP server and provide it with configuration
parameters and policy information including IP address ranges, lease length specifications, and configuration
data that DHCP hosts need.
Configuring the Dell system to be a DHCP server is a three-step process:
1 Configuring the Server for Automatic Address Allocation
2 Specifying a Default Gateway
3 Enabling the DHCP Server
Related Configuration Tasks
• Configure a Method of Hostname Resolution
• Creating Manual Binding Entries
• Debugging the DHCP Server
• Using DHCP Clear Commands
Configuring the Server for Automatic Address
Allocation
Automatic address allocation is an address assignment method by which the DHCP server leases an IP
address to a client from a pool of available addresses.
An address pool is a range of IP addresses that the DHCP server may assign. The subnet number indexes the
address pools.
To create an address pool, follow these steps.
1 Access the DHCP server CLI context.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip dhcp server
2 Create an address pool and give it a name.
DHCP mode
pool name
3 Specify the range of IP addresses from which the DHCP server may assign addresses.
DHCP <POOL> mode
network network/prefix-length
• network: the subnet address.
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