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Enabling client offline detection, Enabling handling of option 82, Configuration prerequisites – H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches User Manual

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To do…

Use the command…

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Enter system view

system-view

Specify the number of ping
packets

dhcp server ping packets
number

Optional
One ping packet by default.
The value 0 indicates that no ping

operation is performed.

Configure a timeout waiting for
ping responses

dhcp server ping timeout
milliseconds

Optional
500 ms by default.
The value 0 indicates that no ping
operation is performed.

Enabling client offline detection

With this feature enabled, the DHCP server considers a DHCP client goes offline when the ARP entry for
the client ages out. In addition, it removes the client’s IP-to-MAC binding entry.
To enable offline detection:

To do…

Use the command…

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Enter system view

system-view —

Enter interface view

interface interface-type
interface-number

Enable offline detection

dhcp server client-detect enable

Required
Disabled by default.

NOTE:

Removing an ARP entry manually does not remove the corresponding client’s IP-to-MAC binding.

Enabling handling of Option 82

With Option 82 handling enabled, when the DHCP server receives a request with Option 82, it adds

Option 82 into the response.
If the server is configured to ignore Option 82, it will assign an IP address to the client without adding

Option 82 in the response message.

Configuration prerequisites

Before performing this configuration, complete the following configuration on the DHCP server:

Enable DHCP

Configure the DHCP address pool

Enable Option 82 handling

Follow these steps to enable the DHCP server to handle Option 82:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view