DHCP Server

You can configure the GaiaClosed Check Point security operating system that combines the strengths of both SecurePlatform and IPSO operating systems. device to be a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.

The DHCP server gives IP addresses and other network parameters to network hosts.

DHCP makes it unnecessary to configure each host manually, and therefore reduces configuration errors.

You configure DHCP server subnets on the Gaia device interfaces.

A DHCP subnet allocates these network parameters to hosts behind the Gaia interface:

  • IPv4 address

  • Default Gateway (optional)

  • DNS parameters (optional):

    • Domain name

    • Primary, secondary and tertiary DNS servers

Allocating DHCP parameters to hosts (for the details, see the next section)

Workflow

Step

Instructions

1

To define a DHCP subnet on a Gaia interface:

  1. Enable DHCP Server on the Gaia network interface.

  2. Define the network IPv4 address of the subnet on the interface.

  3. Define an IPv4 address pool.

  4. Optional: Define routing and DNS parameters for DHCP hosts.

2

Define additional DHCP subnets on other Gaia interfaces, as needed.

3

Enable the DHCP Server process for all configured subnets.

4

Configure the network hosts to use the Gaia DHCP server.