Configuring Your NetScreen as a DHCP Server
Configuring Your NetScreen as a DHCP Server
Problem:
How to configure the Juniper Firewall as a DHCP server?
Solution:
This article applies to ScreenOS 5.0.
To configure your NetScreen as a DHCP server, perform the following steps:
Open the WebUI. For assistance, see KB4060 - Accessing Your NetScreen, SSG, or ISG Firewall Using the WebUI
From the NetScreen options menu, click Network, and then click DHCP.
From Configure, click Edit.
From the DHCP list, click to select DHCP Server.
From the DHCP server settings menu, enter the values that your NetScreen will assign to DHCP clients:
- Gateway: This address will be used by the DHCP clients as the default gateway.
- Netmask: This is the subnet mask that will be used by the DHCP clients.
- DNS#1: This address will be used as the primary Domain Name Server by the DHCP clients.
- WINS#1: This address will be used as the primary Windows Internet Naming Server by the DHCP clients.
Click Apply.
You will now see three additional options.
From the additional options list, click Addresses.
From the DHCP Server Address List page, click New.
From the IP Address Start text box, enter the beginning IP address of the DHCP range, and from the IP Address End text box, enter the ending IP address of the DHCP range.
Click OK. Troubleshooting
