DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and is commonly referred to as the service that dynamically assigns IP addresses -- which makes it easy to e.g. connect to other Wifi networks without knowing anything about their configuration. The DHCP server also tells its clients the default gateway and DNS servers to use.
Questions tagged [dhcp]
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How to change DHCP config?
I am trying to access an ims core from the ims client in my Android device, however I need to modify the dhcp client to add the ip of the core as one of the DNS. In case of a Linux OS the following would do the job::
cd /etc/dhcp3/ ; vi…
user3148
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How can I get Android devices to see a classless static route?
This seems to be a problem that a few people are having. I have DHCP set up on a Windows 2008 server. Amongst all the options I have set, is option 121 (Classless Static Routes). I have two routes set up going over two VPNs, one to one datacentre…
Piers Karsenbarg
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How to remove the android OS version from the DHCP request?
When my phone connects to my home WiFi network, it sends DHCP request in order to get an IP address. It looks like the following:
22:50:53.743535 IP (tos 0x10, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 328)
0.0.0.0.68 >…
Mikhail Morfikov
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