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Dynamic IP addressing

Dynamic IP addressing

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Dynamic IP addressing

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- I was recently teaching a person about IP addressing, in particular static IP addressing, and that young person came up to me and said, "Mike, I don't think I've ever had "to type in an IP address." And I'm like, "Well, that's right. "You probably never have." Because a long time ago we came up with a way to provide dynamic IP addressing, known as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol or DHCP. DHCP works simply like this, you don't type in IP addresses or subnet mask or default gateways anymore. You just fire up your computer, you plug it into a network, and something on the network will give you that information. We call that a DHCP server. Let me show you how that works. So here I've got a local area network and I've got some computers in here. Now, one of the things that I'm going to add is a DHCP server. What's interesting is that most of the time, these home routers that we have on our networks will also act as a…

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