05-02-2012 05:50 AM - edited 03-07-2019 06:27 AM
Hello ppl.
I am going to get some wyse thin clients up and running on our departments. Each department communicate with the main-office through Cisco C1812 routers.
In order to get functionally DHCP up and running, I need to
A - Configure some Dhcp options on the C1812 routers
B - Perform a DHCP relay from each department to the main-office
Option B will cause some additional issues, so is not preferred.
The question is: Does the Cisco DHCP-client have an option for configuring DHCP options? I need to put in among others, an option 161, a string value pointing to a ftp-server. Can this be done? And if it can, I sure would be glad if somebody can give me the right syntax
I have recently started working here, therefore I am not certain of the IOS-version on the router, as I still not have the logon-information, but I will aqquire this shortly.
Regards Jon
05-02-2012 10:53 PM
ip dhcp pool
network x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
default-router x.x.x.x
dns-server x.x.x.x
option
ie, option 156 type string ftpservers=10.1.1.1
See link..
http://www.blindhog.net/cisco-how-to-configure-an-ios-dhcp-server/
Good luck!
Andy
05-07-2012 01:08 AM
Thanks for the reply Andy!!
It is not possible to configure something like
'option 156 type STRING'
String is not recognized as a valid syntax.
The options I can use is 'ascii', 'hex', 'instance' and 'ip'
Maybe it will work just using 'option 161 ip x.x.x.x', even if my Windows dhcp-server is configured with string? 161 is obviously the option I need to configure.
Regards Jon
05-07-2012 08:15 AM
My bad, in windows world it's a "string" value. In Cisco world it's an ascii value. The main two you will use for most purposes are ascii or IP. If you're serving something that is just an IP address, like a DNS server, a NTP server, etc, you use IP. If you have to pass in a sequence of characters, like "bootserver=10.1.1.1,vlanid=101" then you put it in as an ASCII value.
If windows is configured with a string value, I'd use ascii. If it doesn't work, try switching it to IP
Andy
05-09-2012 04:32 AM
Yea.. thta's what I figured.
Thanks for all the help Andy!
I configured to use 'option 161 ip x.x.x.x'' before your answered my question. On my windows Dhcp server the option is actually only passing through an ip-address (or hostname), so pretty sure this will solve the issue for me.
Will (hopefully) have this tested within a week or two.
Thanks again.
Regards Jon
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