Configuring an Extended DHCP Relay Server on EX Series Switches (CLI Procedure)
You can configure an EX Series switch to act as an extended DHCP relay agent. This
means that a locally attached host can issue a DHCP request as a broadcast message
and the switch configured for DHCP relay relays the message to a specified DHCP server.
Configure a switch to be a DHCP relay agent if you have locally attached hosts and a
remote DHCP server.
Before you begin:
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Ensure that the switch can connect to the DHCP server.
To configure a switch to act as an extended DHCP relay agent server:
1. Create at least one DHCP server group, which is a group of 1 through 5 DHCP server
IP addresses:
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]
user@switch# set server-group server-group-name ip-address
2. Set the global active DHCP server group. The DHCP relay server relays DHCP client
requests to the DHCP servers defined in the active server group:
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]
user@switch# set active-server-group server-group-name
3. Create a DHCP relay group that includes at least one interface. DHCP relay runs on
the interfaces defined in DHCP groups:
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]
user@switch# set group group-name interface interface-name
4. (Optional) Configure overrides of default DHCP relay behaviors, at the global level.
See the override options in the overrides statement.
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]
user@switch# set overrides
5. (Optional) Configure DHCP relay to use the DHCP vendor class identifier option
(option 60) in DHCP client packets, at the global level:
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]
user@switch# set relay-option option-number 60
6. (Optional) Configure settings for a DHCP relay group that override the settings at the
global level, using these statements:
[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay group group-name]
user@switch# set active-server-group server-group-name
user@switch# set overrides
user@switch# set relay-option option-number 60
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