You can configure a DHCP server for any FortiGate interface. Select the interface to be the DHCP relay agent.Īs a DHCP server, the FortiGate unit dynamically assigns IP addresses to hosts located on connected subnets. To configure an interface as a DHCP relay agent The DHCP server must have a route to the FortiGate unit that is configured as the DHCP relay so that the packets sent by the DHCP server to the DHCP client arrive at the FortiGate performing DHCP relay. The FortiGate unit also returns responses from the DHCP server to the DHCP clients.
In a DHCP relay configuration, the FortiGate unit forwards DHCP requests from DHCP clients through the FortiGate unit to a DHCP server.
