Networking Improvements

One area in which networking has been improved in Windows Server 2008 is its implementation of DHCP. The following sidebar has been excerpted with permission from a couple of posts on the Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog found at http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/. It provides an overview of DHCPv6 support in both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista:

From the Experts: DHCPv6 Support in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Windows Vista introduces support for DHCPv6. The DHCPv6 client implementation in Windows Vista is compliant with RFC 3315. It supports two modes of operation: Stateless and Stateful.

  • DHCPv6 Stateless mode. is the mode in which the host uses a non-DHCPv6 method to obtain an IPv6 address and uses DHCPv6 ...

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