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Displaying and Maintaining BOOTP Client Configuration
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Display related information on a
BOOTP client
display bootp client
[
interface
interface-type interface-number
]
Available in any
view
BOOTP Client Configuration Example
Network requirement
As shown in
Figure 2-2
, Switch B’s port belonging to VLAN 1 is connected to the LAN. VLAN-interface
1 obtains an IP address from the DHCP server by using BOOTP.
Configuration procedure
The following describes only the configuration on Switch B serving as a client.
# Configure VLAN-interface 1 to dynamically obtain an IP address from the DHCP server.
<SwitchB> system-view
[SwitchB] interface vlan-interface 1
[SwitchB-Vlan-interface1] ip address bootp-alloc
To make the BOOTP client obtain an IP address from the DHCP server, you need to perform additional
configurations on the DHCP server. For details, refer to
DHCP Server Configuration Examples
.