Dhcp settings – Motorola 2200 User Manual

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DHCP Settings

As a Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) ser ver, your Motorola Netopia® Gateway can assign IP
addresses and provide configuration information to other devices on your network dynamically. A device
that acquires its IP address and other TCP/IP configuration settings from the Motorola Netopia® Gate-
way can use the information for a fixed period of time (called the DHCP lease).

Common Commands

set dhcp option { off | server | relay-agent }

Enables or disables DHCP ser vices in the Motorola Netopia® Gateway. You must enable DHCP ser vices
before you can enter other DHCP settings for the Motorola Netopia® Gateway.

If you turn off DHCP ser vices and save the new configuration, the Motorola Netopia® Gateway clears its
DHCP settings.

set dhcp start-address

ip_address

If you selected

server

, specifies the first address in the DHCP address range. The Motorola Neto-

pia® Gateway can reser ve a sequence of up to 253 IP addresses within a subnet, beginning with the
specified address for dynamic assignment.

set dhcp end-address

ip_address

If you selected

server

, specifies the last address in the DHCP address range.

set dhcp lease-time

lease-time

If you selected

server

, specifies the default length for DHCP leases issued by the Motorola Netopia®

Gateway. Enter lease time in

dd:hh:mm:ss

(day/hour/minute/second) format.

set dhcp option-group

name

Specifies a name for one of up to eight DHCP Option Groups. Each Option Group can have a name of
between 1 and 15 characters. The name is used in the DHCP filterset syntax to choose what group of
gen-options is to be ser ved to a par ticular DHCP Client. See

“DHCP Generic Options” on page 154

and

“DHCP Option Filtering” on page 157

.

Option Groups refer to gen-options; they do not contain them. Deleting a gen-option from an option
group does not delete the option. Adding a gen-option to an option-group does not preclude it from
being added to another option-group.

set dhcp default-option-group

name

Sets the option group specified by

name as the default.

set dhcp server-address

ip_address

If you selected

relay-agent

, specifies the IP address of the relay agent ser ver.

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