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Vendor Specific Information - Allows clients and servers to exchange vendor-specific information.
Boot File - Specifies a boot image to be used by the client
Next Bootstrap Server - Configures the IP address of the next server to be used for startup by the

client.

TFTP Server - Configures the address or name of the TFTP server available to the client.

A DHCP server assigns and manages IPv4 addresses from multiple address pools, using dynamic
address allocation. The DHCP server also contains the relay agent to forward DHCP broadcast
messages to network segments that do not support these types of messages.

FIGURE 7 DHCP Server configuration flow chart

Configuring DHCP Server on a device

Perform the following steps to configure the DHCP Server feature on your FastIron device:

Configuring DHCP Server on a device

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