Article ID: 266675 - Last Review: January 27, 2007 - Revision: 3.3

Microsoft DHCP Vendor and User Classes

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SUMMARY

This article describes vendor classes and user classes that are defined by default in Windows 2000 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.

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Microsoft Vendor Classes

The following list contains pre-defined vendor classes that are available in Windows 2000 DHCP server.

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Class Data	Class Name	Description
MSFT 5.0	Microsoft Windows 2000 options	Class that includes all Windows 2000 DHCP clients.
MSFT 98	Microsoft Windows 98 options	Class that includes all Windows 98 and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) DHCP clients.
MSFT	Microsoft options	Class that includes all Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows 2000 DHCP clients.

If you have non-Microsoft DHCP clients, you can define other vendor-specific classes on the DHCP server. When you define such classes, make sure the vendor class identifier that you define matches the identifier used by the clients.

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User Classes

The following list contains pre-defined user classes that are available in Windows 2000 DHCP server.

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Class ID	Class Type	Description
Unspecified	Default user class	All DHCP clients that have no user class specified.
RRAS.Microsoft	Default Routing and Remote Access class	All Dial-Up Networking (DUN) clients.
Bootp	Default Bootp class	All Bootp clients

In addition to these pre-defined classes, you can also add custom user classes for Windows 2000 DHCP clients. When you configure such classes, you must specify a custom identifier that corresponds to the user class defined on the DHCP server.

For additional information about how to create other user and vendor classes, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

240247 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240247/EN-US/ ) How to Create a New DHCP User or Vendor Class

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