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Supported BOOTP and DHCP Standards

The Junos OS substantially supports the following RFCs, which define standards for bootstrap protocol (BOOTP) and Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP).

  • RFC 951, BOOTSTRAP PROTOCOL (BOOTP)
  • RFC 1001, PROTOCOL STANDARD FOR A NetBIOS SERVICE ON A TCP/UDP TRANSPORT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS
  • RFC 1002, PROTOCOL STANDARD FOR A NetBIOS SERVICE ON A TCP/UDP TRANSPORT: DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
  • RFC 1035, DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION
  • RFC 1534, Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP
  • RFC 1700, ASSIGNED NUMBERS
  • RFC 2131, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

    DHCP over virtual LAN (VLAN)-tagged interfaces is not supported.

  • RFC 2132, DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
  • RFC 3046, DHCP Relay Agent Information Option
  • RFC 3118, Authentication for DHCP Messages

    Only Section 4, “Configuration token,” is supported.

  • RFC 3315, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)

    Address assignment is supported with IP version 4 (IPv4) but not IP version 6 (IPv6).

  • RFC 3397, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Domain Search Option
  • RFC 3633, IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6
  • RFC 3925, Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 4 (DHCPv4)
  • RFC 4649, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option

Published: 2014-05-20