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network administrator to congure the IP addresses. In this section, your rst task is
to understand how the DHCP service does the job of assigning IP addresses. After
that, you will learn how to congure the DHCP service.
5.2.1 Dynamic IP Address Assignment Process
A client–server approach is used by the DHCP service to assign IP addresses.
During the IP address assignment, one or more precongured DHCP servers should
be reachable in the network. When a computer that is the DHCP client boots up,
it searches for a DHCP server by broadcasting a DHCP discovery packet called
DHCPDISCOVER. e broadcast address 255.255.255.255 is used by the DHCP
service to reach each network host in the local network. Once the DHCP ...