Automatically Configuring Clients with DHCP
DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It's a protocol to configure hosts (computers) dynamically, meaning that unconfigured client computers can be plugged into a DHCP served LAN, and will be given an IP address, a DNS server address, a WINS server address, and many other configuration items that would otherwise need to be manually configured by the network administrator. The administrator's sole network configuration task is to make sure each client has a unique hostname.
Obviously, this can save many weeks of configuration over the lifetime of a medium-sized LAN. It also makes renumbering a cinch when the LAN's network address or netmask is changed. DHCP can be used to automatically ...
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