August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Windows 2000 Server's implementation of DHCP contains many new features, including rogue DHCP server detection, fault tolerance using clustering, and automatic client configuration. All of the latest IETF specifications for the DHCP protocol are supported:
| RFC 2131 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| RFC 2132 | DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions |
| RFC 1534 | Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP |
| RFC 1542 | Clarifications and Extensions to the Bootstrap Protocol |
Many features have been added to the DHCP service support in Windows 2000. One of the most important is the ability of the DHCP server to provide notification when the number of available IP addresses is low. DHCP implementation is contained in RFC 2131, which ...