D-Link DWS-4026 [276/741] Managing the bootp dhcp relay agent

D-Link DWS-4026 [276/741] Managing the bootp dhcp relay agent
ConfiguringL3Features
D-Link UnifiedWiredandWirelessAccessSystem
November2011 Page276
DLinkUWSUserManual
Section5:ConfiguringL3Features
TheDLinkUnifiedSwitchsupportsIProuting.UsethepagesintheLAN>L3Featuresnavigationtreefolderto
manageroutingonthesystem.Thissectioncontainsthefollowinginformation:
“ManagingtheBOOTP/DHCPRelayAgent
“ConfiguringtheIPHelperFeatures
“ConfiguringARP
“ConfiguringGlobalandInterfaceIPSettings”
“ConfiguringRIP
“RouterDiscovery”
“Router
“VLANRouting
“V irtualRouterRedundancyProtocol(VRRP)”
“ConfiguringQualityofService
Whenapacketenterstheswitch,thedestinationMACaddressischeckedtoseeifitmatchesanyofthe
configuredroutinginterfaces.Ifitdoes,thenthesiliconsearchesthehosttableforamatchingde
stinationIP
address.Ifanentryisfound,thenthepacketisroutedtothehost.Ifthereisnotamatchingentry,thenthe
switchperformsalongestprefixmatchonthedestinationIPaddress.Ifanentryisfound,thenthepacketis
routedtothenexthop.Ifther
eisnomatch,thenthepacketisroutedtothenexthopspecifiedinthedef ault
route.Ifthereisnodefaultrouteconfigured,thenthepacketispassedtotheCPUtobehandledappropriately.
Theroutingtablecanhaveentriesaddedeitherstaticallybytheadministratorordynamicallyviaar
outing
protocol.ThehosttablecanhaveentriesaddedeitherstaticallybytheadministratorordynamicallyviaARP.
ManagingtheBOOTP/DHCPRelayAgent
TheBootP/DHCPRelayAgentenablesBootP/DHCPclientsandserverstoexchangeBootP/DHCPmessages
acrossdifferentsubnets.Therelayagentreceivestherequestsfromtheclients,andchecksthevalidhopsand
giaddrfields.Ifthenumberofhopsisgreaterthantheconfigured,theagentassumesthepackethaslooped
throughtheagentsan
ddiscardsthepacket.IfgiaddrfieldiszerotheagentmustfillinthisfieldwiththeIP
addressoftheinterfaceonwhichtherequestwasreceived.Theagentunicaststhevalidpacketstothenext
configureddestination.TheserverrespondswithaunicastBOOTREPLYaddressedtother
elayagentclosestto
theclientasindicatedbygiaddrfield.UponreceptionoftheBOOTREPLYfromtheserver,theagentforwards
thisreplyasbroadcastorunicastontheinterfacethathadreceivedtheBOOTREQUEST.Thisinterfacecanbe
identifiedbygiaddrfield.
TheDWS4000Seriesswitchalsosupport
sDHCPrelayagentoptionstoidentifythesourcecircuitwhen
customersareconnectedtotheInternetwithhighspeedmodem.Therelayagentinsertstheseoptionswhen
forwardingtherequesttotheserverandremovesthemwhensendingthereplytotheclients.
IfaninterfacehasmorethanoneIPa
ddre ss,therelayagentshouldusetheprimaryIPaddressconfiguredas
itsrelayagentIPaddress.

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