Configuring Option 43 For 1000, 1500, And 1570 Series Access Points - Cisco AIR-AP1572IC Hardware Installation Manual

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Appendix F

Configuring DHCP Option 43

Configuring Option 43 for 1000, 1500, and 1570 Series Access

Points

To configure DHCP Option 43 for Cisco 1000, 1500, and 1570 series access points in the embedded

Cisco IOS DHCP server, follow these steps:

Enter configuration mode at the Cisco IOS command line interface (CLI).

Step 1

Create the DHCP pool, including the necessary parameters such as default router and name server. These

Step 2

commands are used to create a DHCP pool:

ip dhcp pool pool name

network IP Network Netmask

default-router Default router

dns-server DNS Server

Where:

pool name is the name of the DHCP pool, such as AP1000

IP Network is the network IP address where the controller resides, such as 10.0.15.1

Netmask is the subnet mask, such as 255.255.255.0

Default router is the IP address of the default router, such as 10.0.0.1

DNS Server is the IP address of the DNS server, such as 10.0.10.2

Add the Option 60 line for access point using the following syntax:

Step 3

option 60 ascii "VCI string"

For the VCI string, use the value from

Step 4

Add the Option 43 line using the following syntax:

option 43 ascii "Comma Separated IP Address List"

For example, if you are configuring Option 43 for Cisco 1000, 1500, or 1500 series access points using

the controller IP addresses 10.126.126.2 and 10.127.127.2, add the following line to the DHCP pool in

the Cisco IOS CLI:

option 43 ascii "10.126.126.2,10.127.127.2"

The quotation marks must be included.

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