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Configuring wins servers for the dhcp client – H3C Technologies H3C S3600 Series Switches User Manual

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To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

interface interface-type interface-number

dhcp server dns-list ip-address&<1-8>

Configure the
current
interface

quit

Configure
DNS server
addresses
for DHCP
clients

Configure
multiple
interfaces in
system view

dhcp server dns-list ip-address&<1-8>
{ interface interface-type interface-number
[ to interface-type interface-number ] | all }

Required

By default, no
DNS server
address is
configured.

Configuring WINS Servers for the DHCP Client

For Microsoft Windows-based DHCP clients that communicate through NetBIOS protocol, the host

name-to-IP address translation is carried out by WINS servers. So you need to perform WINS-related

configuration for most Windows-based hosts.

To implement host name-to-IP address translation for DHCP clients, you should enable the DHCP

server to assign WINS server addresses when assigning IP addresses to DHCP clients. Currently, you

can configure up to eight WINS addresses for a DHCP address pool.

Host name-to-IP address mappings are needed for DHCP clients communicating through the NetBIOS

protocol. According to the way to establish the mapping, NetBIOS nodes fall into the following four

categories:

z

B-node. Nodes of this type establish their mappings through broadcasting (The character b stands

for the word broadcast). The source node obtains the IP address of the destination node by

sending the broadcast packet containing the host name of the destination node. After receiving the

broadcast packet, the destination node returns its IP address to the source node.

z

P-node. Nodes of this type establish their mappings by communicating with WINS servers (The

character p stands for peer-to-peer). The source node sends the unicast packet to the WINS server.

After receiving the unicast packet, the WINS server returns the IP address corresponding to the

destination node name to the source node.

z

M-node. Nodes of this type are p-nodes mixed with broadcasting features (The character m stands

for the word mixed), that is to say, this type of nodes obtain mappings by sending broadcast

packets first. If they fail to obtain mappings, they send unicast packets to the WINS server to obtain

mappings.

z

H-node. Nodes of this type are b-nodes mixed with peer-to-peer features (The character h stands

for the word hybrid), that is to say, this type of nodes obtain mappings by sending unicast packets

to WINS servers first. If they fail to obtain mappings, they send broadcast packets to obtain

mappings.

Follow these steps to configure WINS servers for the DHCP client:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

interface interface-type interface-number

dhcp server nbns-list ip-address&<1-8>

Configure
WINS server
addresses for
DHCP clients

Configure the
current
interface

quit

Required

By default, no
WINS server
address is

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