Excluded Addresses with External DHCP Server Configured?

[Matthew Martin]

Hello All,

If a switch is configured with a Vlan that has an External DHCP Server configured with it (*i.e. with an "ip helper-address x.x.x.x"). Would any ip dhcp excluded-addresses configured on the same switch have any affect on address allocation done by the external DHCP Server?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks in Advance,
Matt

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

This command is meant to tell the internal DHCP-server which addresses are not allowed to give to clients. If your DHCP-server is on a different host, it has to be configured on that DHCP-server.

[Matthew Martin]

Hey Karsten, thanks for the reply.

Ok, that's what I assumed, but wasn't positive... Thanks for clarifying that for me.

Thanks Again,
Matt