LDP/LDP/guide/docbook/Linux-Networking/DHCP.xml

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<sect1 id="DHCP">
<title>DHCP</title>
<para>
Endeavouring to maintain static IP addressing to maintain static IP addressing
information, such as IP addresses, subnet masks, DNS names and other
information on client machines can be difficult. Documentation becomes lost or
out-of-date, and network reconfigurations require details to be modified
manually on every machine.
</para>
<para>
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) solves this problem by providing
arbitrary information (including IP addressing) to clients upon request.
Almost all client OSes support it and it is standard in most large networks.
</para>
<para>
The impact that it has is most prevalent it eases network administration,
especially in large networks or networks which have lots of mobile users.
</para>
2. DHCP protocol
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), is used to control
vital networking parameters of hosts (running clients) with the help
of a server. DHCP is backward compatible with BOOTP. For more
information see RFC 2131 (old RFC 1541) and other. (See Internet
Resources section at the end of the document). You can also read
[32]http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html.
4.5. Other interesting documents
Linux Magazine has a pretty good article in their April issue called
[62]Network Nirvana: How to make Network Configuration as easy as DHCP
that discusses the set up for DHCP.
References
1. DHCP.html#AEN17
2. DHCP.html#AEN19
3. DHCP.html#AEN24
4. DHCP.html#AEN41
5. DHCP.html#AEN45
6. DHCP.html#AEN64
7. DHCP.html#AEN69
8. DHCP.html#AEN74
9. DHCP.html#AEN77
10. DHCP.html#SLACKWARE
11. DHCP.html#REDHAT6
12. DHCP.html#AEN166
13. DHCP.html#AEN183
14. DHCP.html#DEBIAN
15. DHCP.html#AEN230
16. DHCP.html#NAMESERVER
17. DHCP.html#AEN293
18. DHCP.html#TROUBLESHOOTING
19. DHCP.html#AEN355
20. DHCP.html#AEN369
21. DHCP.html#DHCPSERVER
22. DHCP.html#AEN382
23. DHCP.html#AEN403
24. DHCP.html#AEN422
25. DHCP.html#AEN440
26. http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/DHCP.html
27. http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/DHCP.html
28. http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/JFdocs/DHCP.html
29. ftp://cuates.pue.upaep.mx/pub/linux/LuCAS/DHCP-mini-Como/
30. mailto:vuksan-feedback@veus.hr
31. http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
32. http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html
33. mailto:sergei@phystech.com
34. ftp://ftp.phystech.com/pub/
35. http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/
36. ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/daemons
37. ftp://ftp.phystech.com/pub/
38. DHCP.html#NAMESERVER
39. DHCP.html#LINUXPPC-RH6
40. mailto:alexander.stevenson@home.com
41. DHCP.html#NAMESERVER
42. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/dhcpcd-0.6-2.i386.rpm
43. DHCP.html#SLACKWARE
44. mailto:nothing@cc.gatech.edu
45. DHCP.html#NAMESERVER
46. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/net/
47. DHCP.html#SLACKWARE
48. mailto:heiko@os.inf.tu-dresden.de
49. DHCP.html#NAMESERVER
50. DHCP.html#REDHAT6
51. ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/
52. ftp://ftp.phystech.com/pub/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl9.tar.gz
53. DHCP.html#TROUBLESHOOTING
54. mailto:nothing@cc.gatech.edu
55. DHCP.html#ERROR3
56. ftp://vanbuer.ddns.org/pub/
57. DHCP.html#DHCPSERVER
58. mailto:mellon@isc.org
59. ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/
60. http://www.kde.org/
61. ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/
62. http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-04/networknirvana_01.html
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