Configuring Wins Servers For The Dhcp Client - H3C S5600 Series Operation Manual

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2.5.6 Configuring WINS Servers for the DHCP Client

For Microsoft Windows-based DHCP clients that communicate through NetBIOS
protocol, the host name-to-IP address translation is carried out by WINS servers. So
you need to perform WINS-related configuration for most Windows-based hosts.
To implement host name-to-IP address translation for DHCP clients, you should enable
the DHCP server to assign WINS server addresses when assigning IP addresses to
DHCP clients. Currently, you can configure up to eight WINS addresses for a DHCP
address pool.
Host name-to-IP address mappings are needed for DHCP clients communicating
through the 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). The source node obtains the IP
address of the destination node by sending the broadcast packet containing the
host name of the destination node. After receiving the broadcast packet, the
destination node returns its IP address to the source node.
P-node. Nodes of this type establish their mappings by communicating with WINS
servers (The character p stands for peer-to-peer). The source node sends the
unicast packet to the WINS server. After receiving the unicast packet, the WINS
server returns the IP address corresponding to the destination node name to the
source node.
M-node. Nodes of this type are p-nodes mixed with broadcasting features (The
character m stands for the word mixed), that is to say, this type of nodes obtain
mappings by sending broadcast packets first. If they fail to obtain mappings, they
send unicast packets to the WINS server to obtain mappings.
To do...
system-view
interface interface-type
interface-number
Configure
the current
dhcp server dns-list
interface ip-address&<1-8>
quit
dhcp server dns-list
Configure ip-address&<1-8> { interface
multiple interface-type
interfaces in interface-number [ to
system view interface-type
interface-number ] | all }
Chapter 2 DHCP Server Configuration
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Remarks
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Required
By default, no DNS
server address is
configured.