Avaya 9601 - Chapter 4: Configuration through the DHCP Options; DHCP Overview; DHCP Options Configuration

Chapter 4: Configuration through the DHCP
options
DHCP overview
The 9600 Series IP Deskphones connect to the DHCP server during the boot up. You can configure
the DHCP server to provide the following information to the device:
• IP address
• Subnet mask
• IP address of the router
• IP address of the HTTP or HTTPS file server
• IP address of the SNTP server
• IP address of DNS
DHCP options configuration
Ensure that the following options are set in the DHCP server. Provision options that are specified in
the following table only as configuring additional options might cause unexpected result and the
device to ignore the DHCP server.
Option
Description
Option 1 Specifies the subnet mask of the network.
Option 3 Specifies the gateway IP address list. The list can contain up to 127 total ASCII
characters. Separate more than one IP address with commas with no intervening
spaces.
Option 6 Specifies the DNS server address list. The list can contain up to 127 total ASCII
characters. Separate more than one IP address with commas with no intervening
spaces.
The deskphone supports DNS and the dotted decimal addresses. The deskphone
attempts to resolve a non-ASCII-encoded dotted decimal IP address by checking the
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August 2015 Administering Avaya 9601/9608/9611G/9621G/9641G/9641GS IP Deskphones SIP 27
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