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Verifying the DHCP Client

Purpose

Verify that the DHCP client information reflects your DHCP client configuration

Action

From operational mode in the CLI, to display DHCP client information, enter the show system services dhcp client command. To display more information about a specified interface, enter the show system services dhcp client interface-name command. Finally, enter the show system services dhcp client statistics command.

The DHCP client configuration resulting from the CLI configuration is displayed in the following sample output.


user@host> show system services dhcp client
Logical Interface Name   ge-0/0/1.0
			Hardware address 		00:0a:12:00:12:12
			Client Status			bound
			Vendor Identifier		ether
			Server Address			10.1.1.1
			Address obtained		10.1.1.89
			update server 			enables
			Lease Obtained at		2006-08-24 18:13:04 PST
			Lease Expires at		2006-08-25 18:13:04 PST

		DHCP Options:
			Name: name-server, Value: [ 10.209.194.131, 2.2.2.2, 3.3.3.3 ]
			Name: server-identifier, Value: 10.1.1.1
			Name: router, Value: [ 10.1.1.80 ]
			Name: domain-name, Value: netscreen-50


user@host> show system services dhcp client ge-0/0/1.0
Logical Interface Name   ge-0/0/1.0
			Hardware address 		00:12:1e:a9:7b:81
			Client Status			bound
			Address obtained		30.1.1.20
			update server 			enables
			Lease Obtained at		2007-05-10 18:16:04 PST
			Lease Expires at		2007-05-11 18:16:04 PST

		DHCP Options:
			Name: name-server, Value: [ 30.1.1.2 ]
			Code: 1, Type: ip-address, Value: 255.255.255.0
			Name: name-server, Value: [ 77.77.77.77, 55.55.55.55 ]
			Name: domain-name, Value: englab.juniper.net

user@host> show system services dhcp client statistics
Packets dropped:	
			Total				0
		Messages Received:	
			DHCPOFFER				0  
			DHCPACK 				8
			DHCPNAK 				0

		Messages Sent:
			DHCPDECLINE 			0
			DHCPDISCOVER 			0
			DHCPREQUEST 			1
			DHCPINFORM 				0
			DHCPRELEASE 			0
			DHCPRENEW 				7
			DHCPREBIND 				0

    

Meaning

Verify whether the DHCP client information reflects your DHCP client configuration.

Related Topics

For complete descriptions of the show system services dhcp client command and output, see the JUNOS Software CLI Reference.


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