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server-identifier

Syntax



server-identifier address;

Hierarchy Level



[edit system services dhcp],
[edit system services dhcp pool],
[edit system services dhcp static-binding]

Release Information

Statement introduced before JUNOS Release 7.4.

Description

For J-series Services Routers only. Configure a server identifier. This is an optional setting that can be used to identify a DHCP server in a DHCP message. It can also be used as a destination address from clients to servers (for example, when the boot file is set, but not the boot server).

Servers include the server identifier in DHCPOFFER messages so that clients can distinguish between multiple lease offers. Clients include the server identifier in DHCPREQUEST messages to select a lease and indicate which offer is accepted from multiple lease offers. Also, clients can use the server identifier to send unicast request messages to specific DHCP servers to renew a current lease.

This address must be a manually assigned, static IP address. The server cannot send a request and receive an IP address from itself or another DHCP server.

Default

If no server identifier is set, the DHCP server sets the server identifier based on the primary interface address used by the server to receive a client request. For example, if the client sends a DHCP request and the server receives it on fe-0/0/0 and the primary interface address is 1.1.1.1, then the server identifier is set to 1.1.1.1.

Options

address—The IPv4 address of the server. This address must be accessible by all clients served within a specified range of addresses (based on an address pool or static binding).

Usage Guidelines

See Configuring a DHCP Server.

Required Privilege Level

system—To view this statement in the configuration.

system-control—To add this statement to the configuration.

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