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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) - Meraki Systems Manager Tutorial

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

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Now, let's talk about how you can provide IP addressing to the devices that are behind your security appliance. This is where the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, lives. Try saying DHCP fast three times. Now, DHCP is used to assign IP addresses to the devices, and the server can actually be local within the subnet or in a remote subnet, or it can actually be the same device as the the actual default gateway. So the DHCP client can attain the following settings from the server, the IP address, the subnet mask, what is the default gateway, the DNS server, and other types of optional attributes that are included in the DHCP packets. Now, a DHCP server is gonna maintain the binding of the MAC address to IP address to accommodate device reboots so that we don't have to give new IP addresses every time there's a request. Now the DHCP also allows for reservations for specific clients to get the same IP address consistently. Now, IP addresses can be excluded from a pool to…

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