Can i configure DHCP server on Nexus N5K-C5596UP with Layer 3 expansion module?

[Mir Navazish Ali]

Can i configure DHCP server on Nexus N5K-C5596UP with Layer 3 expansion module?

Basically I want to migrate the below configurations from 6500s to a nexus 5K with L3 expansion module? Is this possibl?

ip dhcp pool vlan99
   network y.y.y.y 255.255.255.0
   default-router x.x.x.1
   domain-name xxx.com
   dns-server x.x.x.x 
!

ip dhcp excluded-address <a.b.c.d>

Thanks

Mir

[InayathUlla Sharieff · Accepted solution]

Mir,

N5K is L2 only, it doesnt support to have DHCP server on it.
Please take a look at the data sheet, under Product Specifications, you will not be able to find any L3 features such as routing.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/data_sheet_c78-461802.html

Also 5K does not support routing protocols but it does support inter vlan routing

On N7k you will have these features.

HTH

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[Kelvin Willacey]

I am not sure about DHCP but isn't the purpose of the layer three daughter card to provide routing functionality? I have a 5548UP with a layer three daughter card and I am running EIGRP, inter VLAN routing and DHCP relay. If you look at the same link table 5 lists the software licenses and there is a base and enterprise layer three license. So I wouldn't consider it to be only a layer 2 switch

[Jon Marshall]

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