DHCP components and standards
Packet Fields
DHCP Message Type
BOOTP Vendor Information
DHCP Extensions
100
DHCP server application
What responds to client requests for TCP/IP configuration settings
100
Op Code
What specifies whether the message is a request or a reply?
100
DHCPDISCOVER
What is used by clients to request configuration parameters from a DHCp server?
100
Subnet Mask
What specifies which bits of the IP address identify the host system and which bits identify the network where the host system resides?
100
Requested IP Address
What is used by clients to request a particular IP address from the server?
200
DHCP Client
What issues requests to servers and applies the TCP/IP configuration settings it receives to the local computer?
200
Hardware Type
What specifies the type of hardware address used in the chaddr field?
200
DHCPOFFER
What is used by severs to offer IP address to requesting clients?
200
Router
What specifies the IP adress of the router (or default gateway) on the local network segment the client should use to transmit to systems on other network segments?
200
IP Address Lease Time
What specifies the duration of a dynamically allocated IP address lease?
300
DHCP Communications Protocol
What defines the formats and sequences of the messages exchanged by DHCP clients and servers?
300
Hardware Address Length
What specifies the length in bytes of the hardware address in the chaddr field?
300
DHCPREQUEST
What is used by clients to accept or renew an IP address assignment?
300
Domain Name Server
What specifies the IP address of the servers the cleitn will use for DNS name resolution?
300
Server Identifier
What specifies the IP address of the server involved in a DHCP transaction; used by the client to address unicasts to the server?
400
Dynamic Allocation
What is it called when a DHCP server assigns an IP address to a client computer from a scope for a specified length of time?
400
Hops
What specifies the number of network segments between the client and the server?
400
DHCPDECLINE
What is used by clients to reject an offered IP address?
400
Host name
What specifies the DNS host name the client system will use?
400
Parameter Request List
What is used by the client to send a list of requested configuration options (identified by their code number) to the server?
500
Automatic Allocation
What is called when the DHCP server permanently assigns an IP address to the client computer from a scope?
500
xid
What contains a transaction identifier used to associate the request and response messages of a single DHCP transaction?
500
DHCPACK
What is used by servers to acknowledge a client's acceptance of an offered IP address?
500
Domain Name
What specifies the name of the DNS domain on which the system will reside?
500
Message
What carries an error message from the server to the client in a DHCPNAK message?