DHCP Server Administration
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is anything else, and where hhhhhh are ASCII characters for the hexadecimal
representation of the last three octets of the telephone’s MAC address.
- Option 15 - DNS Domain Name.
This string contains the domain name to be used when DNS names in system
parameters are resolved into IP Addresses. This domain name is appended to the
DNS name before the 1603SW-I SIP IP Deskphone attempts to resolve the DNS
address. Option 15 is necessary if you want to use a DNS name for the HTTP server.
Otherwise, you can specify a DOMAIN as part of customizing HTTP as indicated in
DNS Addressing
on page 88.
- Option 42 - SNTP Server.
This option specifies a list of IP or DNS addresses indicating SNTP servers available
to retrieve date and time via SNTP. List servers in the order of preference.The
minimum length is 4, and the length must be a multiple of 4.
- Option 51 - DHCP lease time.
If this option is not received, the DHCPOFFER is not be accepted. Avaya
recommends a lease time of six weeks or greater. If this option has a value of
FFFFFFFF hex, the IP Address lease is assumed to be infinite as per RFC 2131,
Section 3.3, so that renewal and rebinding procedures are not necessary even if
Options 58 and 59 are received. Expired leases cause Avaya IP Telephones to reboot.
Avaya recommends providing enough leases so an IP Address for an IP telephone
does not change if it is briefly taken offline.
Note:
Note: Regarding Option 51: The DHCP standard states that when a DHCP lease
expires, the device should immediately cease using its assigned IP Address. If
the network has problems and the only DHCP server is centralized, the server is
not accessible to the given telephone. In this case the telephone is not usable
until the server can be reached. Avaya recommends that once assigned an IP
Address, the telephone continues using that address after the DHCP lease
expires, until a conflict with another device is detected. As Table 11: 1603SW-I
SIP IP Deskphones Customizeable System Parameters indicates, the system
parameter DHCPSTD allows an administrator to specify that the telephone will
either: a). Comply with the DHCP standard by setting DHCPSTD to “1”, or b).
Continue to use its IP Address after the DHCP lease expires by setting
DHCPSTD to “0.” The latter case is the default. If the default is invoked, after the
DHCP lease expires the telephone sends an ARP Request for its own IP Address
every five seconds. The request continues either forever, or until the telephone
receives an ARP Reply. After receiving an ARP Reply, the telephone displays an
error message, sets its IP Address to 0.0.0.0, and attempts to contact the DHCP
server again. Log events are generated for either case.
- Option 52 - Overload Option, if desired.
If this option is received in a message, the telephone interprets the sname and file
fields in accordance with IETF RFC 2132,
Section 9.3, listed in Appendix B: Related Documentation
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