7 Network
7.4. DHCP
DHCP is the Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol, the Device has a server component for this
built-in. The protocol is designed to provide correct conguration of IP Address and related pa-
rameters to clients. Clients in this context are any computers/machines/adapters connected to the
LAN ports of the Device. The purpose of using DHCP is to have non-conicting congurations
without manually placing parameters into each client.
When the client is started it sends a special request on the network, and it receives an oer from
the server. The server has a range of IP Addresses to choose from. It will attempt to oer the
same IP Address to the client as it did before. If that is not possible for some reason it will oer a
dierent IP Address. An IP Address assigned to a client is named as a Lease in context of DHCP.
The server has a list of known clients, it will identify them by their MAC Address. If the client is on
this list, it gets the pre-dened IP Address reserved for this client as an oer. No other client will
ever get this IP Address. For clients not on this list on their rst contact to the server they receive
an oer with an IP Address from the range, which does not conict with the IP Addresses of known
clients.
There are some issues to consider with DHCP, see
7.4.1. DHCP-Server
Figure 47: DHCP Address Range
The Start address and End address dene the available address range for the DHCP-Server, both
addresses are included in the range. The values like 100 represent the fourth/last number of an
IP Address, the preceeding three numbers are identical to the Device's IP Address (see section
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