DHCP Aruba 2930

[johbreaking]

Just looking to move a small network onto aruba 2930M and remove the DC on site (Only doing DHCP and DNS). These will be going up to the company provided Router, any best practice or tips?

[Davit2005]

Are you going to be using the 2930 for DHCP or setup ip helper addresses to point to a external DHCP server?

[johbreaking]

Are you going to be using the 2930 for DHCP or setup ip helper addresses to point to a external DHCP server?

 

Looking to use the Aruba 2930 as sole DHCP

[Aprice]

This would be the way to do it, although it's not as easy to manage leases as something like DHCP on Windows server or other routers. Probably fine though for a small site though.

 

vlan 1

name "VLAN X"

untagged 1/1

ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0

dhcp-server

 

 

 

dhcp-server pool "VLANX-Pool"

default-router "192.168.10.1"

dns-server "8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1

network 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0

range 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.250

exit

dhcp-server enable

 

 

 

[johbreaking]

This would be the way to do it, although it's not as easy to manage leases as something like DHCP on Windows server or other routers. Probably fine though for a small site though.

 

vlan 1

name "VLAN X"

untagged 1/1

ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0

dhcp-server

 

 

 

dhcp-server pool "VLANX-Pool"

default-router "192.168.10.1"

dns-server "8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1

network 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0

range 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.250

exit

dhcp-server enable

 

 

 

 

Thanks for this! Anyone know how to set a reservation on these switches?

[MicrodigitUK]

Thanks for this! Anyone know how to set a reservation on these switches?

 

Wouldn’t it make more sense to reduce the IP “range” given out by DHCP. And set what you need with static IP address not dished out via DHCP. Or do you have a device that needs a static IP but you’re unable to set it statically hence needing a reservation?

[johbreaking]

Wouldn’t it make more sense to reduce the IP “range” given out by DHCP. And set what you need with static IP address not dished out via DHCP. Or do you have a device that needs a static IP but you’re unable to set it statically hence needing a reservation?

Sadly is the latter on this one. Need the laptop on dhcp but need it as a reservation.

[MicrodigitUK]

Sadly is the latter on this one. Need the laptop on dhcp but need it as a reservation.

 

Dose it need a reservation really? If it’s a Windows laptop you can definitely set the IP address statically, both on a wired and wireless connection.

 

I was thinking more something like a smart lightbulb that you wanted to fix an IP address for but it doesn’t Have a way to statically set it with no UI to configure it.

[MicrodigitUK]

If you do want to do the reservation then this webpage seems to have an example:

https://www.networktasks.co.uk/environments/hp/provision/dhcp-server-on-hpe-aruba-switch