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DHCP (RFC 2131)

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Web and networking protocols
Docs outline
6 sections

Official docs outline

rfc-editor.org
  1. Protocol summary

    Allocation mechanisms: automatic, dynamic and manual.

  2. Client-server interaction

    DISCOVER, OFFER, REQUEST, ACK (DORA).

  3. Lease reacquisition and expiration

    T1 renewal, T2 rebinding and lease expiry behavior.

  4. Constructing DHCP messages

    Message fields, broadcast flag and relay agents.

  5. DHCP options

    Option encoding for gateway, DNS and lease time.

  6. DHCPv6

    Stateful DHCPv6 message exchange.

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