My boss recently let me know of some interesting stuff he was doing with a Cisco 2950 24 port switch. \u00a0Apparently you cannot make a 2950 a DHCP server, but if you flash the 2950 to use a 2960 lanbase image, it works just fine!<\/p>\n
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Below is my boss’ text. Any questions, tweet him @RayGodwin1<\/a><\/p>\n ****<\/p>\n My first inclination would be to say no, but I went and checked on a 2950 running Below is the sequence to configure it. As its a layer 2 switch we are restricted to servicing only request from 1 VLAN (in this case the default vlan 1) I did a show command to see what the address was on int vlan 1.<\/p>\n Switch2950#show run interface vlan 1 Current configuration : 78 bytes Switch2950#<\/p>\n Switch#conf t Message Received Message Sent My boss recently let me know of some interesting stuff he was doing with a Cisco 2950 24 port switch. \u00a0Apparently you cannot make a 2950 a DHCP server, but if you flash the 2950 to use a 2960 lanbase image, it works just fine! Below is my boss’ text. Any questions, tweet him… Continue reading My Boss’ DHCP Experiment on a 2950<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(C2960-LANBASEK9-M), Version 12.2(25)SEE2 and it appears to work! I say appears as I am remote from the switch and cannot (yet) validate operation.<\/p>\n
\nBuilding configuration…<\/p>\n
\n!
\ninterface Vlan1
\nip address 10.3.3.57 255.255.255.0
\nno ip route-cache
\nend<\/p>\n
\nEnter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL\/Z.
\nSwitch(config)#host Switch2950
\nSwitch2950(config)#ip dhcp pool test
\nSwitch2950(dhcp-config)#network 10.3.3.0 \/24
\nSwitch2950(dhcp-config)#default-router 10.3.3.1
\nSwitch2950(dhcp-config)#ip dhcp excluded-address 10.3.3.1 10.3.3.49
\nSwitch2950(config)#ip dhcp excluded-address 10.3.3.60 10.3.3.254
\nSwitch2950(config)#end
\nSwitch2950#
\nSwitch2950#show ip dhcp server statistics
\nMemory usage 4517
\nAddress pools 1
\nDatabase agents 0
\nAutomatic bindings 0
\nManual bindings 0
\nExpired bindings 0
\nMalformed messages 0<\/p>\n
\nBOOTREQUEST 0
\nDHCPDISCOVER 0
\nDHCPREQUEST 0
\nDHCPDECLINE 0
\nDHCPRELEASE 0
\nDHCPINFORM 0<\/p>\n
\nBOOTREPLY 0
\nDHCPOFFER 0
\nDHCPACK 0
\nDHCPNAK 0
\nSwitch2950#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"