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Androider
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DHCP server main duties
DHCP server, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Networking Equipment
Hi,

Please can you tell me what are the other tasks carried out by DHCP server apart from allocating IP address?

Thanks

 

ASKED: Nov 11 2009  2:11 PM GMT
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Main tasks of a DHCP Server:

1.) Protocol stack.
2.) Configuration Parameters to hosts.
3.) Application settings/parameters to hosts.
4.) Reduces or eliminates necessity of manually configuring host.
5.) Prevent multiple uses of the same IP.


Hope this helps!

-Schmidtw
Last Answered: Nov 11 2009  3:40 PM GMT by Schmidtw   10520 pts.
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Androider   15 pts.  |   Nov 11 2009  4:48PM GMT

Thanks for the quick reply

Many thanks for your help