Tuesday, June 25, 2013

IxNetwork DHCP: How to configure DHCPv4 Client and DHCPv4 Server




In the main navigation window, click Protocol Configuration.
Click Access and enable DHCP/PD/w Auth on port1 and DHCP Server on port2

Configure DHCPv4 Client
Under Protocol Configuration, click DHCP/PD w/Auth node  and then the DHCP Client tab
*** the All tab contains all  configuration options for DHCP clients. In order to be easy to use the DHCPv4 client configuration options are grouped in  tabs
Click the Basic tab and make sure that Client is IPv4 type ( default).
Configure Count to be 100 in order to emulate 100 DHCPv4 clients

Click the DHCPv4 tab to see other parameters that might be configured.

Optionally you can click on MAC tab to configure the MAC addresses used by clients

Optionally you can click on VLAN tab to configure VLAN information for each client.
Uncheck box means that no VLAN is currently used (default)

Note:
You can configure up to six levels of VLAN stack.
VLAN stack 1 and 2 can be activated directly from the grid.
To configure more, click on Edit VLAN tab


 Configure Global DHCP client settings
 Click on Protocol Options icon from top to configure the Global settings for  DHCPv4 clients

On protocol option click on DHCP Client
On Global Settings tab General tab you can configure the Setup rate, Teardown Rate, Timeout and retransmission for DHCPv4 and also the DCPv4 ports to be used on client-server exchange
In order to be able to generate traffic although not all clients have been negotiated check the box Accept Partial Configuration


To specify a desired rate per port go to  Port Group Settings tabs and   activate  overrides for specific ports:







Configure DHCP Server
Under Protocol Configuration click DHCP Server and then click the DHCP Server tab. All tab is selected by default

Go on DHCP Server tab
Make sure that type is Ipv4
Configure Server Address an Server Gateway ( optional). They should be in the same subnet


On DHCP Leases tab configure the pool addresses to be used by the DHCP server:

If you want to add more ranges from a click on the Add Range button from above or Append To button if you want to add more  from a click. Check the box in front of row in order to be used.

*****In case of using Relay Agent the pool should be on the same subnet with the IPv4 address of the Relay Agent

 Optionally configure MAC and VLAN for server from their respective tabs:


Configure DHCP server Global Settings
To configure Lease Timeout and maximum Lease time go to Protocol Options click on DHCP Server node and Global Settings are displayed



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6 comments:

  1. ace feiMay 26, 2016 at 3:06 AM

    How to configure DHCP options like DHCP Router option 3, Static Route Options 33

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  2. UnknownSeptember 22, 2016 at 6:36 AM

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  3. UnknownSeptember 22, 2016 at 6:39 AM

    Do Ixia support IP allocation on basis of Option82 received from DHCP relay agent?

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    1. SiminaSeptember 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM

      As far as i know it support the server override.
      If it does not work for your specific case open a support case.

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  4. UnknownMarch 7, 2017 at 11:14 PM

    I have query regarding the DHCP stream that we send manually.
    I have setup Client === Relay === server
    From DHCP server(Ixia), Traffic item(flow) is created to send DHCP offer packets with destination IP as relay IP address. Relay agent traps this Offer packet and broadcast it to the client side port as expected.
    In Ixia client port we can see the packets are received on Port statistics, however the Traffic item/flow statistics shows the received packets as zero. Why is it not showing in the traffic item receive packets. Is anything missing here in configuration?

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  5. UnknownFebruary 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM

    Hi! Is it possible to configure a dhcp reservation ip vs client mac address?

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