The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP ...
DHCP is a client/server protocol used to dynamically assign IP-address parameters (and other things) to a DHCP client. It is implemented as an option of BOOTP.
DHCP defines a process by which the DHCP server knows the IP subnet in which the DHCP client resides, and it can assign an IP address from a pool of valid IP ...
This document provides fundamentals of basic DHCP operation in relation to IP address allocation, IP address lease renewal and IP address release procedures.