Questions
- General
- What is DHCP?
- What is DHCP’s purpose?
- Who Created It? How Was It Created?
- Can DHCP work with Appletalk or IPX?
- How is it different than BOOTP or RARP?
- How is it different than VLANs?
- What protocol and port does DHCP use?
- What is an IP address?
- What is a MAC address?
- What is a DHCP lease?
- What is a Client ID?
- Why shouldn’t clients assign IP numbers without the use of a server?
- Can DHCP support statically defined addresses?
- How does DHCP and BOOTP handle other subnets?
- Can a BOOTP client boot from a DHCP server?
- Can a DHCP client boot from a BOOTP server?
- Is a DHCP server “supposed to” be able to support a BOOTP client?
- Is a DHCP client “supposed to” be able to use a BOOTP server?
- BOOTP client boot from a DHCP and BOOTPserver
- Can a DHCP server back up another DHCP server?
- When will the server to server protocol be defined?
- Is there a DHCP mailing list?
- In a subnetted environment, how does the DHCP server discover what subnet a request has come from?
- If a single LAN has more than one subnet number, how can addresses be served on subnets other than the primary one?
- If a physical LAN has more than one logical subnet, how can different groups of clients be allocated addresses on different subnets?
- Can DHCP support remote access?
- Can a client have a home address and still float?
- How can I relay DHCP if my router does not support it?
- How do I migrate my site from BOOTP to DHCP?
- Can you limit which MAC addresses are allowed to roam?
- Is there an SNMP MIB for DHCP?
- What is DHCP Spoofing?
- How long should a lease be?
- How can I control which clients get leases from my server?
- How can I prevent unauthorized laptops from using a network that uses DHCP for dynamic addressing?
- What are the Gotcha’s?
- Info on Implementations
- What features or restrictions can a DHCP server have?
- What are the DHCP plans of major client-software vendors?
- What Routers forward DHCP requests?
- What Routers include DHCP servers?
- What Routers use DHCP to configure their IP addresses?
- Which implementations support or require the broadcast flag?
- What servers support secondary subnet numbers?
- What servers support RFC-based dynamic DNS update?
- Do any servers limit the MAC addresses that may roam?