From the course: Deploying and Configuring Core TCP/IP Services
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Understanding DHCP - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Deploying and Configuring Core TCP/IP Services
Understanding DHCP
- [Narrator] You know that IP addresses can be configured manually or assigned automatically. If you opt for automatic addressing, DHCP is a technology responsible for it. DHCP needs three things to work. It needs a device that assigns the address. This can be a DHCP server or on a local network, a router. DHCP also needs clients. These are the computers, printers, and other nodes that get their IP address from this device. Finally, DHCP needs a protocol for communicating between servers and clients, hints, dynamic host configuration protocol. Let's look at each of these in more detail. In larger networks and domains, a DHCP server can be a standalone computer whose sole function is to manage DHCP addressing. In these scenarios, an administrator must create, manage, and maintain a predefined scope of addresses. This pool of addresses are then made available to the clients by that server. On smaller networks, a…
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