topic Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system??? in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

skandshus — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:10:02 GMT

Hello everybody.. I’ve been testing a vsx setup and I have a few subnets in my production environment that rely on dhcp server.. since running a virtual system removes a lot of options in the physical gateway and there is no gui on a virtual system, does anybody know how to create a dhcp server on a particular interface/vlan on the virtual system?

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

Chris_Atkinson — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:16:30 GMT

See sk79700 most likely you will need to explore DHCP relay.

Also not supported on Maestro per sk148074.

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

skandshus — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 04:04:21 GMT

Well it states “yes” in the dhcp server box, bit part 5 is confising me.. doesnt make much sense to me

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

Oliver_Fink — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:08:06 GMT

DHCP Relay works, we are using it with customers . As Chris states, you should use this instead of DHCP of the VS itself. DHCP only on VS0 does not make much sense for me, too.

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

skandshus — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 02:05:34 GMT

So you’re actively using the physical gateways to serve dhcp? I though the whole point for the vsx system was to use the virtual system and leave the physical gateway as a simple physical gateway for the virtual systems, and not having them do anything in terms of providing any services to network devices.. like an esxi host doesn’t provide anything for windows 10 running in a virtual machine

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

Oliver_Fink — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:44:55 GMT

We are using DHCP relay within the VSes. I do not see any sense in doing direct DHCP from VS0.

Re: Dhcp server on vsx virtual system???

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:41:13 GMT

Looks like this is to be improved in R81.20 per comments here:

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Product-Announcements/R81-20-EA-Program-Production/ba-p/135926