Cisco 857w DHCP issue

Nov 04, 2007 1 Replies

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mbanyon 18 years ago

Hi, my network has a windows dhcp server but some clients connect to the network via wireless and a Cisco 857w router. I have not turned the DHCP server on on the Cisco. The problem I am having is that the wireless users can see the cisco wireless but not get an IP. Do I need to do anything in the cisco config to allow the DHCP traffic to pass internally between those wireless clients and my windows dhcp server?

cheers for any assistance

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Merv 18 years ago

DHCP requests are send to broadcast address 255.255.255.255. These broadcast packets need to be redirected to the DHCP server.

Try configuring an ip helper-address command on the BVI interface pointing to the DHCP server

config t int BVI 1 ip helper-address < insert DHCP server IP adddress here >

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