DHCP uses a client-server structure to provide configuration
parameters to hosts. It consists of a protocol that provides host-specific
configuration parameters from a DHCP server (or collection of DHCP servers) to
a host and a mechanism to allocate network addresses to a host.
The
commands in Figure
are used to
correct DHCP related problems. The commands in Figure
display
information about DHCP. A troubleshooter uses the information from these
commands to isolate problems.