Have you ever thought that a simple off the shelf home network router could take down your network? The home router is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and plugged into a business network can cause end devices to receive the wrong ip address configuration information. One would like to think ... Read More
Category: DHCP
03
Apr2014
03
Apr2014
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) uses a range of addresses with options to provide clients with IP address configurations to operate on the network. DHCP servers are configured with scopes by an administrator to manage IP addressing in the network.
Scopes are also known as pools, than contain a range of ... Read More
31
Mar2014
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay is used to forward DHCP client's broadcast request, DHCPDiscover, from one VLAN to the DHCP server's VLAN. This request forwarding is done by the local router gateway of the DHCP client. The broadcast is not forwarded by routers, but configured with DHCP relay, the ... Read More
31
Mar2014
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is used to dynamically configure IP addresses on end devices. A DHCP server provides IP addresses to a DHCP client from a pool/scope configured by an DHCP server administrator with options that provide additional information for the client to operate successfully on the network. There's ... Read More