Configuring Netbios Services For Dhcp Clients - 3Com 5500-SI Configuration Manual

Configuring NetBIOS
Services for DHCP
Clients
You can configure domain names to be used by DHCP clients for address pools. After
you do this, the DHCP server provides the domain names to the DHCP clients as well
while the former assigns IP addresses to the DHCP clients.
Table 115 Configure DNS services for DHCP clients
Operation
Enter system view
Create a DHCP address
pool and enter DHCP
address pool view
Configure a domain name
for DHCP clients
Configure DNS server
addresses for DHCP clients
For Microsoft Windows-based DHCP clients that communicate through NetBIOS
protocol, the host name-to-IP address translation is carried out by WINS (Windows
internet naming service) servers. So you need to perform WINS-related configuration
for most Windows-based hosts. Currently, you can configure up to eight NetBIOS
addresses for a DHCP address pool.
Host name-to-IP address mappings are needed for DHCP clients communicating
through NetBIOS protocol. According to the way to establish the mapping, NetBIOS
nodes fall into the following four categories:
B-node. Nodes of this type establish their mappings through broadcasting. (The
■
character b stands for the word broadcast.)
P-node. Nodes of this type establish their mappings by communicating with
■
NetBIOS servers. (The character p stands for peer-to-peer.)
M-node. Nodes of this type are p-nodes mixed with broadcasting features. (The
■
character m stands for the word mixed.)
H-node. Nodes of this type are b-nodes mixed with peer-to-peer features. (The
■
character h stands for the word hybrid.)
Table 116 Configure NetBIOS services for DHCP clients
Operation
Enter system view
Create a DHCP address
pool and enter DHCP
address pool view
Configure NetBIOS
server addresses for
DHCP clients
Configure DHCP clients
to be of a specific
NetBIOS node type
Global Address Pool-Based DHCP Server Configuration 131
Command Description
system-view -
dhcp server Required
ip-pool By default, no global DHCP address pool is
pool-name created.
domain-name Required
domain-name By default, no domain name is configured for
DHCP clients.
dns-list Required
ip-address&<1-8> By default, no DNS server address is configured.
Command Description
system-view -
dhcp server ip-pool Required
pool-name By default, no global DHCP address pool is
created.
nbns-list Required
ip-address&<1-8> By default, no NetBIOS server address is
configured.
netbios-type { b-node Optional
| h-node | m-node | By default, a DHCP client is an h-node.
p-node }