Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

DHCP relay agent

Synopsis

Configure a DHCP relay agent, and enable or disable it on a router interface.

Procedures

The procedures here apply when configuring a Windows 2000 Server computer to operate as a DHCP relay agent (not third-party routers). You must have Routing and Remote Access enabled on your computer to configure it as a DHCP relay agent (see Routing and Remote Access). The following procedures assume that the Routing and Remote Access console is already open.

Configure a DHCP Relay Agent

Select server node → IP Routing node → right-click on DHCP Relay Agent → Properties → General → specify IP address of DHCP server

If you have several DHCP servers on the network, you should specify which one(s) can service DHCP clients on the subnet on which your relay agent resides.

Enable or Disable a DHCP Relay Agent on a Router Interface

Select server node → IP Routing node → right-click on DHCP Relay Agent → Properties → New Interface → General → select Relay DHCP Packets

You enable the relay agent on each network connection or interface on which you want it to operate.

Notes

• To view DHCP relay-agent statistics, select the DHCP Relay Agent node in the console tree and read the Details Pane.

• When you enable a DHCP agent (see Section earlier in this article), you can also specify a wait interval for the agent. This is the time in seconds the agent will wait between receiving a DHCP client-broadcast request and forwarding it to a DHCP server. This is a useful feature, for it allows ...