DHCP
With so many settings (IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS servers) to specify, the typical TCP/IP network administrator can spend days properly configuring each host manually. For troubleshooting purposes, you sometimes must put in all these settings manually, what we call static configuration, because the settings only change when you manually make the changes.
Fortunately, TCP/IP provides a protocol that takes much of the drudgery out of TCP/IP configuration: DHCP.
Travel Advisory
IPv6 uses DHCPv6 as its DHCP protocol, while the DHCP protocol that came with IPv4 is known as DHCPv4.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ...
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