esun23

• Oct 11th, 2007

 

DHCP stands for dynamic host configuration protocol. What it does is dynamically assign network settings from a server.hence a DHCP configured PC boots, it requests its IP address from the DHCP server. It does this by sending a standardized DHCP broadcast request packet to the DHCP server with a source IP address of 255.255.255.255.

If your DHCP server has more than one interface, you have to add a route for this 255.255.255.255 address so that it knows the interface on which to send the reply; if not, it sends it to the default gateway. (In both of the next two examples, we assume that DHCP requests will be coming in on interface eth0).

md naushad

 Profile Answers by md naushad 

• Nov 29th, 2007

 

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuratio Protocol It assigns addressing information to client so it works only in server client mode.Client asks addressing informatio from
DHCP Server by four way commuication.