3com WX3000 Manuel D’Utilisation

 

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After you specify a VLAN interface as a DHCP client, the device can use DHCP to obtain parameters 

such as IP address dynamically from the DHCP server, which facilitates user configuration and 

management. 

Refer to 

 for the process of how a DHCP client dynamically obtains 

an IP address through DHCP. 

After you specify an interface as a bootstrap protocol (BOOTP) client, the interface can use BOOTP to 

get information (such as IP address) from the BOOTP server, which simplifies your configuration. 

Before using BOOTP, an administrator needs to configure a BOOTP parameter file for each BOOTP 

client on the BOOTP server. The parameter file contains information such as MAC address and IP 

address of a BOOTP client. When a BOOTP client sends a request to the BOOTP server, the BOOTP 

server will search for the BOOTP parameter file and return it to the client. 

A BOOTP client dynamically obtains an IP address from a BOOTP server in the following way: 

1)  The BOOTP client broadcasts a BOOTP request, which contains its own MAC address. 

2)  The BOOTP server receives the request and searches for the corresponding IP address according 

to the MAC address of the BOOTP client and sends the information in a BOOTP response to the 

BOOTP client. 

3)  The BOOTP client obtains the IP address from the received response. 

 

Because a DHCP server can interact with a BOOTP client, you can use the DHCP server to assign an 

IP address to the BOOTP client, without needing to configure any BOOTP server. 

 

Follow these steps to configure a DHCP/BOOTP client: 

Enter system view 

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Enter VLAN interface view 

interface vlan-interface vlan-id 

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