Enabling and Disabling Insertion of Option 82 Information
You can enable or disable support for the DHCP relay agent information option (option 82) in packets destined for a DHCP server. You can configure option 82 support globally or for a named group of interfaces.
To restore the default behavior (option 82 information is not inserted into DHCP packets), you use the delete relay-option-82 statement.
To configure support for the DHCP relay agent information option 82, you use the relay-option-82 statement.
The following sections describe the option 82 operations you can configure:
Configuring Agent Circuit ID Information
You use the relay-option-82 statement to enable insertion of option 82 information in DHCP packets. You must also specify at least the circuit-id statement to include the Agent Circuit ID suboption (suboption 1) of the DHCP relay agent information option.
If you specify the circuit-id statement, the format of the Agent Circuit ID information for Fast Ethernet (fe) or Gigabit Ethernet (ge) interfaces is one of the following, depending on your network configuration:
- For Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that
do not use virtual local area networks (VLANs) or stacked VLANs (S-VLANs):(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port
- For Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that
use VLANs:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:vlan-id
- For Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that
use S-VLANs:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
To enable insertion of option 82 information:
- Specify that you want to configure option 82 support. [edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]user@host# edit relay-option-82
- Specify insertion of the Agent Circuit ID suboption. [edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82]user@host# set circuit-id
Configuring an Option 82 Prefix
You can include an optional prefix to the base option 82 information in DHCP packets destined for a DHCP server.
The prefix is separated from the option 82 Agent Circuit ID information by a colon (:), and can include any combination of the host-name, logical-system-name, and routing-instance-name options. The DHCP relay agent obtains the values for the host-name, logical-system-name, and routing-instance-name as follows:
- If you include the host-name option, the DHCP relay agent uses the hostname of the router configured with the host-name statement at the [edit system] hierarchy level.
- If you include the logical-system-name option, the DHCP relay agent uses the logical system name configured with the logical-system statement at the [edit logical-system] hierarchy level.
- If you include the routing-instance-name option, the DHCP relay agent uses the routing instance name configured with the routing-instance statement at the [edit routing-instances] hierarchy level or at the [edit logical-system logical-system-name routing-instances] hierarchy level.
If you include the hostname and either or both of the logical system name and the routing instance name in the prefix, the hostname is followed by a forward slash (/). If you include both the logical system name and the routing instance name in the prefix, these values are separated by a semicolon (;).
The following examples show several possible formats for the Agent Circuit ID information when you specify the prefix statement for Fast Ethernet (fe) or Gigabit Ethernet (ge) interfaces with S-VLANs.
- If you include only the hostname in the prefix for Fast
Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with S-VLANs:hostname:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
- If you include only the logical system name in the prefix
for Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with S-VLANs:logical-system-name:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
- If you include only the routing instance name in the prefix
for Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with S-VLANs:routing-instance-name:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
- If you include both the hostname and the logical system
name in the prefix for Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
with S-VLANs:host-name/logical-system-name:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
- If you include both the logical system name and the routing
instance name in the prefix for Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces with S-VLANs:logical-system-name;routing-instance-name:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
- If you include the hostname, logical system name, and
routing instance name in the prefix for Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces with S-VLANs:host-name/logical-system-name;routing-instance-name:(fe | ge)-fpc/pic/port:svlan-id-vlan-id
For Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that use VLANs but not S-VLANs, only the vlan-id value appears in the Agent Circuit ID format. For Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that do not use VLANs or S-VLANs, neither the vlan-id value nor the svlan-id value appears.
To configure an optional prefix with the option 82 information:
- Specify that you want to configure option 82 support. [edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]user@host# edit relay-option-82
- Specify insertion of the Agent Circuit ID information.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82]user@host# edit circuit-id
- Specify that the prefix is included in the option 82 information.
In this example, the prefix includes the hostname and logical system
name[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82 circuit-id]user@host# set prefix host-name logical-system-name
Using a Textual Description in Option 82
By default, when DHCP option 82 is inserted into client packets, the Agent Circuit ID suboption includes the interface identifier. You can optionally configure that the Agent Circuit ID suboption include the textual description that is configured for the interface instead of the interface identifier. You can use the textual description for either the logical interface or the device interface.
You can include the textual interface description in the Agent Circuit ID suboption for static interfaces. The textual description is configured using the description statement at the [edit interfaces interface-name] hierarchy level. If you specify that the textual description is used and no description is configured for the interface, DHCP relay defaults to using the interface identifier.
To configure the DHCP relay option 82 suboption to include the textual interface description:
- Specify that you want to configure option 82 support. [edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay]user@host# edit relay-option-82
- Specify insertion of the Agent Circuit ID information.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82]user@host# edit circuit-id
- Specify that the textual description is included in the
option 82 information. In this example, the option 82 information
includes the description used for the device interface.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82 circuit-id]user@host# set use-interface-description device
