[nsp] experience with Cisco DHCP service

[Cor van Rij]

All,
especially (in random order) Siva, Simon,Alex, Scott,Voralt, thanks for your
feedback and sharing your experiences, this has been most helpfull.

regards

cor vanr ij

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Siva Valliappan [SMTP:svalliap at cisco.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 06, 2003 8:22 PM
> To:	Simon Lockhart
> Cc:	Cor van Rij; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject:	Re: [nsp] experience with Cisco DHCP service
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
>    if you are running 12.2(8)T or later code you can make use of the
> following:
> 
> "ip dhcp bootp ignore" :
>   Configure this command to specify that the IOS DHCP server
>   should not reply to received BOOTP requests. The default is
>   disabled. The "no" form of the command restores the default.
>   Ignored BOOTP requests will be forwarded to configured
>   "ip helper-addresses" on the incoming interface.
> 
> this should help with the issue you are seeing below.
> 
> cheers
> .siva
> 
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > On Thu Jun 05, 2003 at 05:02:49PM +0200, Cor van Rij wrote:
> > > can anyone share his/her experiences with configuring DHCP services on
> a
> > > cisco router? What bugs did you encounter, what is the performance
> impact,
> > > how stable is it? Any pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> > I use it on a small scale, seems fairly solid.
> >
> > The biggest problem i've come across is that there doesn't seem to be a
> way
> > to tell it not to respond to bootp requests, so my DHCP pool gets
> clogged up
> > with permanent allocations to random unconfigured switches, etc, on the
> > network.
> >
> > Simon
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