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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. To enable support for the DHCP relay agent information option you use the relay-option-82 statement.

You can configure option 82 support globally or for a named group of interfaces.

To enable support for DHCP relay agent information option 82:

Specify that you want to configure option 82 support.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay] user@host# edit relay-option-82
Insert the option 82 information in DHCP packets.
See Configuring Agent-Circuit-Id Information.
(Optional) Include an option 82 prefix with the base option 82 information.
See Configuring an Option 82 Prefix.
(Optional) To restore the default behavior (option 82 information is not inserted into DHCP packets), do not include any subordinate statements.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay] user@host# set relay-option-82

This topic includes the following sections:

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. [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.[edit forwarding-options dhcp-relay relay-option-82] user@host# set 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] user@host# set circuit-id prefix host-name logical-system-name

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