BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide

BOOTP/DHCP Client IP Address Services

For remote switch administration, the client terminal device must have a valid IP address on the same network as a switch interface. The IP address on the client device may be configured manually, or obtained automatically using IPv6 stateless address configuration, or an IPv4 address may obtained automatically via BOOTP or DHCP relay as discussed below.

The G8124 can function as a relay agent for Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) or DHCP. This allows clients to be assigned an IPv4 address for a finite lease period, reassigning freed addresses later to other clients.

Acting as a relay agent, the switch can forward a client’s IPv4 address request to up to four BOOTP/DHCP servers. In addition to the four global BOOTP/DHCP servers, up to four domain-specific BOOTP/DHCP servers can be configured for each of up to 10 VLANs.

When a switch receives a BOOTP/DHCP request from a client seeking an IPv4 address, the switch acts as a proxy for the client. The request is forwarded as a UDP Unicast MAC layer message to the BOOTP/DHCP servers configured for the client’s VLAN, or to the global BOOTP/DHCP servers if no domain-specific BOOTP/DHCP servers are configured for the client’s VLAN. The servers respond to the switch with a Unicast reply that contains the IPv4 default gateway and the IPv4 address for the client. The switch then forwards this reply back to the client.

DHCP is described in RFC 2131, and the DHCP relay agent supported on the G8124 is described in RFC 1542. DHCP uses UDP as its transport protocol. The client sends messages to the server on port 67 and the server sends messages to the client on port 68.

BOOTP and DHCP relay are collectively configured using the BOOTP commands and menus on the G8124.

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G8124-E, G8124 specifications

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