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What are the Gotcha’s? A malicious user could make trouble by putting up an unofficial DHCP server. The immediate problem would be a server passing out numbers...
32. How long should a lease be? I’ve asked sites about this and have heard answers ranging from 15 minutes to a year. Most administrators will say...
27. Can a client have a home address and still float? There is nothing in the protocol to keep a client that already has a leased or...
26. Can DHCP support remote access? PPP has its own non-DHCP way in which communications servers can hand clients an IP address called IPCP (IP Control Protocol)...
It is theoretically possible to develop software for client-machines that finds an unused address by picking them out of the blue and broadcasting a request of all...
8. What is an IP address? An IP address (also called an IP number) is a number (typically written as four numbers separated by periods, i.e. 107.4.1.3...
6. How is it different than VLANs? DHCP and VLANs, which are very different in concept, are sometimes cited as different solutions to the same problem. While...
5. How is it different than BOOTP or RARP? DHCP is based on BOOTP and maintains some backward compatibility. The main difference is that BOOTP was designed...
Network Address Translation is used translate the private IP into Public IP. It is do mapping. Types of NAT: Static NAT Dynamic NAT Overloading 1. Static Network...
