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DHCP Server Configuration
The DHCP Server Configuration program has a main
window:
The DHCP Server Configuration program has notebooks, which show detailed
information about a selected configuration item and are used to add or modify
configuration data:
Note:
If an error is detected when you exit a notebook, you are returned to the
notebook to correct the error. To exit a notebook without saving
configuration changes, click Cancel. To save configuration changes,
click OK.
- DHCP Server Parameters: Settings for lease,
logging, DDNS, and miscellaneous definitions that control the operation of the
DHCP server.
- Global Parameters: Settings that apply to all
clients, unless overridden at a subnet, class, or client level. The
Global Parameters notebook enables you to exclude addresses, make DDNS and
BootP choices, and define DHCP options.
- Subnet: Definitions of ranges of IP addresses
to be leased to clients.
- Class: DHCP options and other definitions
served to a group of clients that identify themselves as belonging to a named
class.
- Client: DHCP options served to a particular
client uniquely identified by the client ID.
- Vendor Option: Vendor-specific options for a
group of clients that identify themselves with an option for a specific
vendor.
- Comment: Comments inserted in the
configuration.
- Subnet Group: A group of subnets that share
the same physical network, also known as multiple subnets "on the same
wire".
- Client to Exclude from DHCP Service: IDs of
clients not serviced by the DHCP server, even if the clients request
service.
The DHCP Server Configuration program has other windows that are displayed
from the DHCP Server Configuration window or from the notebooks:
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