The management overhead of introducing new clients to a network is simplified as the majority of addressing is administered centrally at the DHCP server.
The task of introducing new sub-networks, or re-addressing portions, or the whole, of the network is also simplified through centralisation.
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The flexibility of DHCP ensures that devices that do require static address, whether for authentication purposes or other reasons, can be managed centrally. Most products will allocate static addresses by device MAC address, though some products can also assign by username or workgroup.
DHCP is based on the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and maintains some backward compatibility with it.
There are two primary differences, between DHCP and BOOTP that should be noted. First, DHCP defines mechanisms through which clients can be assigned an IP address for a finite lease period, allowing for reassignment of the IP address to another client later. Secondly, DHCP provides the mechanism for a client to gather other IP configuration parameters it needs to operate in the TCP/IP network.one stop MOS