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[Acronym] for __D__ynamic __H__ost __C__onfiguration __P__rotocol.
-Allows hosts on your network
to be automatically told
the details of your
network. This is a good thing because it means that
you can easily renumber
your network without
having to go to every machine and
change it's
static ip
. You can still give machines static ip'
s with DHCP you simply bind the ip
to the
[MAC] address of that machine. DHCP can also be used to tell hosts about their gateway and their dns servers
.
+It allows machines
to configure their own network settings by querying a server about
the details of the
network. Thus,
you can make global configuration changes like renumbering
your network in a central place, rather than
having to change the
static [IP] of every single host separately
. You can still give machines static [IP]
s with [
DHCP] by binding [IP]s
to [MAC] addresses
.
-See [DHCPNotes]
+[DHCP] is not restricted to giving machines [IP]s. In fact, it can be used to configure a huge number of network related settings. Two such settings commonly configured via [DHCP] are the gateway and [DNS] server addresses for clients to use.
+
+
See also
[DHCPNotes]
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CategoryProtocols
