Dhcp relay global configuration – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Configuring Switching Information

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Before it relays DHCP requests from clients, the switch can add a Circuit ID and a Remote ID. These

provide information about the circuit and port number connected to the client. This information is

added as suboptions in the DHCP Option 82 packets (see sections 3.1 and 3.2 of RFC3046). The switch

removes this option from packets that it relays from L3 Relay agents/DHCP servers to clients.
These sub-options may be used by the DHCP server to affect how it treats the client, and also may be

used by the relay agent to limit broadcast replies to the specific circuit or attachment point of the client.
The Switching > DHCP Relay page provides links to the following pages:

DHCP Relay Global Configuration
DHCP Relay Interface Configuration
DHCP Relay Interface Statistics
DHCP Relay VLAN Configuration

DHCP Relay Global Configuration

Use this page to enable or disable the switch to act as a DHCP Relay agent. This functionality must also

be enabled on each port you want this service to operate on (see DHCP Relay Interface Configuration).

The switch can also be configured to relay requests only when the VLAN of the requesting client

corresponds to a service provider’s VLAN ID that has been enabled with the L2 DHCP relay

functionality (see DHCP Relay VLAN Configuration).
To access this page, click Switching > DHCP Relay > Global Configuration in the tree view.

Figure 7-123. DHCP Relay Global Configuration

If you enable or disable the DHCP Relay feature, click Apply Changes to submit the changes to system.

Configuring DHCP Relay With CLI Commands

For information about the CLI commands that perform this function, refer to the following chapter in

the

CLI Reference Guide

:

• L2 DHCP Relay Agent Commands

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