Useful DHCP Show Commands

In this post I will demonstrate a few useful show commands that will help me see the state of the routers DHCP server which I set up in the previous post.

• show ip dhcp binding
• show ip dhcp pool
• show ip dhcp server statistics

These commands were run after a computer was issued the IP 10.0.2.1 from the dmz pool.


router1#show ip dhcp binding
Bindings from all pools not associated with VRF:
IP address Client-ID/ Lease expiration Type
Hardware address/
User name
10.0.2.1 0100.1e68.ffd3.5f Oct 13 2009 10:08 PM Automatic


router1#show ip dhcp pool
Pool dmz :
Utilization mark (high/low) : 100 / 0
Subnet size (first/next) : 0 / 0
Total addresses : 254
Leased addresses : 1
Pending event : none
1 subnet is currently in the pool :
Current index IP address range Leased addresses
10.0.2.2 10.0.2.1 - 10.0.2.254 1



router1#show ip dhcp server statistics
Memory usage 23991
Address pools 1
Database agents 0
Automatic bindings 1
Manual bindings 0
Expired bindings 0
Malformed messages 9
Secure arp entries 0

Message Received
BOOTREQUEST 0
DHCPDISCOVER 8
DHCPREQUEST 12
DHCPDECLINE 0
DHCPRELEASE 0
DHCPINFORM 5

Message Sent
BOOTREPLY 0
DHCPOFFER 1
DHCPACK 4
DHCPNAK 0