Reference Guide

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The DHCP option codes used are:

•6 Domain Name Server IP

•66 TFTP Server name

•67 Boot filename

•150 TFTP server IP address

•209 Configuration File

MAC-Based IP assignment

One way to use the BMP mode most efficiently is to configure the DHCP server to assign a fixed IP

address, FTOS image, and configuration file based on the switch’s MAC address. When this is done, the

same IP address is assigned to the switch even on repetitive reloads and the same configuration file will be

retrieved when using the DNS server or the network-config file to determine the hostname.

The assigned IP address is only used to retrieve the files from the file server. It is discarded after the files

are retrieved.

Note: The boot file name and configuration file name must be in the correct format. If it is not, the switch

will be unable to download the file from the DHCP server, and will behave as if the server could not be

reached. The discovery process will continue, despite configured time-out, until the stop jump-start com-

mand is given.

URL Examples Description

##### FTOS image

option bootfile-name "ftp://user:passwd@myserver/

FTOS-SE-8.3.10.1.bin";

FTP URL with hostname

(requires DNS)

option bootfile-name "http://10.20.4.1/FTOS-SE-8.3.10.1.bin";

HTTP URL with IP address

option bootfile-name "tftp://10.20.4.1/

FTOS-SE-8.3.10.1.bin";

TFTP URL with IP address

option bootfile-name "flash://FTOS-SE-8.3.10.1.bin";

Flash path relative to /f10/flash