3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

724 CHAPTER 50: DHCP SERVER CONFIGURATION
■ Without subaddress specified, assign an IP address from the address pool of
the subnet which the primary IP address of the server’s interface (connected to
the client) belongs to.
Configuring an
Address Pool for the
DHCP Server
Configuration Task List To configure an address pool, perform the tasks described in the following
sections:
Creating a DHCP
Address Pool
To create a DHCP address pool, use the following commands:
Configuring an Address
Allocation Mechanism
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CAUTION: You can configure either the static binding or dynamic address
allocation for an address pool as needed.
It is required to specify an address range for the dynamic address allocation. A
static binding is a special address pool containing only one IP address.
Configure manual address allocation
Some DHCP clients such as a WWW server need fixed IP addresses. You can create
a static binding of a client’s MAC or ID to IP address in the DHCP address pool.
Task Remarks
“Creating a DHCP Address Pool” on page 724 Required
“Configuring an
Address Allocation
Mechanism” on
page 724
“Configure manual address
allocation” on page 724
Required to configure either of the
two
“Configure dynamic address
allocation” on page 725
“Configuring a Domain Name for the Client” on page
726
Optional
“Configuring DNS Servers for the Client” on page 726
“Configuring WINS Servers and NetBIOS Node Type for
the Client” on page 726
“Configuring the BIMS server Information for the Client”
on page 727
“Configuring Gateways for the Client” on page 728
“Configuring the TFTP Server Address and Bootfile Name
for the Client” on page 728
“Configuring Self-Defined DHCP Options” on page 729
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Create a DHCP address pool
and enter its view
dhcp server ip-pool
pool-name
Required
No DHCP address pool is
created by default.