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Chapter5 Administering the Access PointW ireless Device Access
Configuring the Access Point to Provide DHCP Service
Use the no form of these commands to return to default settings.
This example shows how to configure the wireless device as a DHCP server, exclude a range of IP
address, and assign a default router:
AP# configure terminal
AP(config)# ip dhcp excluded-address 172.16.1.1 172.16.1.20
AP(config)# ip dhcp pool wishbone
AP(dhcp-config)# network 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
AP(dhcp-config)# lease 10
AP(dhcp-config)# default-router 172.16.1.1
AP(dhcp-config)# end
Monitoring and Maintaining the DHCP Server Access Point
These sections describe commands you can use to monitor and maintain the DHCP server access point:
Show Commands, page 5-24
Clear Commands, page 5-25
Debug Command, page 5-25

Show Commands

In Exec mode, enter the commands in Table 5- 2 to display information about the wireless device as
DHCP server.
Table5-2 Show Commands for DHCP Server
Command Purpose
show ip dhcp conflict [ address ] Displays a list of all address conflicts recorded by
a specific DHCP Server. Enter the wireless
device’s IP address to show conflicts recorded by
the wireless device.
show ip dhcp database [ url ] Displays recent activity on the DHCP database.
Note Use this command in privileged EXEC
mode.
show ip dhcp server statistics Displays count information about server statistics
and messages sent and received.