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Updating the Lease Database
132 Enterasys X-Pedition User Reference Manual
Note: The DHCP server does not process packets that arrive on PPP MLP interfaces.
Configuring DHCP Server Parameters
You can configure several “global” parameters that affect the behavior of the DHCP server itself.
To configure global DHCP server parameters, enter the following commands in Configure mode:
Updating the Lease Database
After each client transaction, the DHCP server does not immediately update the information in the
lease database. Lease update information is stored in flash memory and flushed to the database at
certain intervals. You can use the dhcp global set commit-interval command to specify this
interval; the default is one hour.
To force the DHCP server to immediately update its lease database, enter the following command
in Enable mode:
Monitoring the DHCP Server
To display information from the lease database:
To display the number of allocated bindings for the DHCP server and the maximum number
allowed:
Specify a remote location to back up
the lease database.
dhcp global set lease-database <url>
Specify the intervals at which the lease
database is updated.
dhcp global set commit-interval <hours>
Force the server to update its lease
database.
dhcp flush
Show lease database information.
dhcp show binding [active|expired|static]
Show the number of allocated bindings
for the DHCP server.
dhcp show num-clients