As said earlier DHCP reservations should be configured differently based on the DHCP client’s (the host TO which the IP will be assigned) Operating System. To exclude a range of IP addresses use the following command R1(config)#ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.5 Configure DHCP reservationĭHCP reservations are configured based on MAC addresses, an IP is statically assigned to a host with the specified MAC address. The following command excludes only one IP address R1(config)#ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.1 DHCP IP address exclusionĬertain IP addresses like the IP address of the default gateway router and the DHCP server itself are assigned manually, since the DHCP pool covers the entire subnet containing the manually assigned IP address conflicts might occur. Here it is 4 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes. Finally the lease time specifies how long the IP addresses will be valid before the client need to get them renewed.
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The name of the pool is mynetwork1 which can be anything and it contains addresses from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254, the default gateway will be 192.168.0.1, DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 you can add more IP addresses by dividing them with spaces. On a Cisco router use the following commands to create a pool of IP addresses with a default gateway, DNS server and lease time.
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When configuring DHCP reservation it should be done differently for Windows DHCP clients and Linux DHCP clients because both of them make DHCP requests differently. IP address exclusion prevents conflicts among devices i certain hosts are manually assigned IP addresses. A DHCP server dynamically assigns IP addresses to hosts in a network, by creating DHCP reservations we can statically assign an IP address to a host based on its MAC address.
#Configure linksys router for mac how to
A tutorial describing how to configure a Cisco router as a DHCP server, I’ll cover DHCP reservation and excluding of IP addresses as well.