October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 24m
English
When DHCP is enabled on a subnet, a dnsmasq process is spawned in a network namespace whose name corresponds to the network UUID. In the event that a process already exists, the dnsmasq process is updated to support the additional subnet in the network.
Most instances rely on DHCP to obtain their associated IP address. DHCP goes through the following stages:
DHCPDISCOVERY packet using a broadcast address. This is usually 255.255.255.255.DHCPOFFER packet. The packet contains the MAC address of the instance that makes the request, the IP address, the subnet mask, lease duration, and the IP address of the DHCP server.Read now
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