Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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other identification information about a client. Servers not equipped to interpret the class-specific information sent by a client must ignore it (although it may be reported). (tag=60) • Client-identifier - used by DHCP clients to specify their unique identifier. DHCP servers use this value to index their database of address bindings. This value is expected to be unique for all clients in an administrative domain. (tag=61) Maguire DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 1531) 4: 36 of 74 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

DHCP’s importance • allows reuse of address, which avoids having to tie up addresses for systems which are not currently connected to the Internet • avoids user configuration of IP address (avoids mistakes and effort) • allows recycling of an IP address when devices are scrapped • … How big a problem is manual configuration? A large site (such as DuPont Co. - a large chemical company) has over 65,000 IP addressable devices; or consider what happens if each of the 815,000 Wal-Mart employees has an IP device Address management software Product Vendor URL Network Registrar Cisco http://www.cisco.com NetID Nortel Networks http://www.nortelnetworks.com Meta IP 4.1 CheckPoint http://www.metaip.checkpoint.com QIP Enterprise 5.0 Lucent Technologies http://qip.lucent.com Maguire DHCP’s importance 4: 37 of 74 maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

other identification in<strong>for</strong>mation about a client. Servers not equipped to<br />

interpret the class-specific in<strong>for</strong>mation sent by a client must ignore it<br />

(although it may be reported). (tag=60)<br />

• Client-identifier - used by DHCP clients to specify their unique<br />

identifier. DHCP servers use this value to index their database of<br />

address bindings. This value is expected to be unique <strong>for</strong> all clients in<br />

an administrative domain. (tag=61)<br />

Maguire DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 1531) 4: 36 of 74<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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