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Page 1 of 13 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
In the context of computer networking, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP, currently implemented as DHCPv6) is a client-server networking protocol. A DHCP server provides configuration parameters specific to the DHCP client host requesting, generally, information required by the client host to participate on an IP network. DHCP also provides a mechanism for allocation of IP addresses to client hosts.
DHCP emerged as a standard protocol in October 1993. RFC 2131 provides the latest (March 1997) DHCP definition. DHCP functionally became a successor to the older BOOTP protocol. Due to the backward-compatibility of DHCP, very few networks continue to use pure BOOTP.
The latest standard of the protocol, describing DHCPv6 (DHCP in a IPv6 environment), appeared in July 2003 as RFC 3315.
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