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What is DHCP?
Every Linux Administrator has challenges to configure network settings like IP address, subnet mask as identifying the IP address available within the network is sometime not quick.
What is DHCP?
DHCP allows to configure network settings automatically as soon as the Linux OS is installed and configured. DHCP follows client-server protocol and client ask DHCP server for IP address for assignment and Server lease the IP address to the client and the IP configured automatically.
- DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) automatically assigns IP addresses and other network configuration information (subnetmask, broadcast address, etc) to computers on a network.
- A client configured for DHCP will send out a broadcast request to the DHCP server requesting an address. The DHCP server will then issue a "lease" and assign it to that client.
- The time period of a valid lease can be specified on the server. DHCP reduces the amount of time required to configure clients and allows one to move a computer to various networks and be configured with the appropriate IP address, gateway and subnet mask
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