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DHCP

The document discusses the DHCP message exchange process, detailing the use of UDP for communication and the sequence of Discover, Offer, Request, and ACK messages. It also addresses the significance of the Transaction-ID, the IP addresses used during the exchange, and the roles of the router and subnet mask in the DHCP offer. Additionally, it covers the lease time, DHCP release message, and the presence of ARP packets during the DHCP exchange.

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DHCP

The document discusses the DHCP message exchange process, detailing the use of UDP for communication and the sequence of Discover, Offer, Request, and ACK messages. It also addresses the significance of the Transaction-ID, the IP addresses used during the exchange, and the roles of the router and subnet mask in the DHCP offer. Additionally, it covers the lease time, DHCP release message, and the presence of ARP packets during the DHCP exchange.

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1. Are DHCP messages sent over UDP or TCP?

Sent over User datagram protocol

2. Draw a timing datagram illustrating the sequence of the first four-packet

Discover/Offer/Request/ACK DHCP exchange between the client and server. For

each packet, indicated the source and destination port numbers

3. What is the link-layer (e.g., Ethernet) address of your host?

4. What values in the DHCP discover message differentiate this message from the

DHCP request message?


5. What is the value of the Transaction-ID in each of the first four

(Discover/Offer/Request/ACK) DHCP messages? What are the values of the

Transaction-ID in the second set (Request/ACK) set of DHCP messages? What is

the purpose of the Transaction-ID field?

1st 4:
2nd set:

6. A host uses DHCP to obtain an IP address, among other things. But a host’s IP

address is not confirmed until the end of the four-message exchange! If the IP

address is not set until the end of the four-message exchange, then what values are

used in the IP datagrams in the four-message exchange? For each of the four

DHCP messages (Discover/Offer/Request/ACK DHCP), indicate the source and

destination IP addresses that are carried in the encapsulating IP datagram.

7. What is the IP address of your DHCP server?

IP address of DHCP sever is 192.168.224.191

8. What IP address is the DHCP server offering to your host in the DHCP Offer

message? Indicate which DHCP message contains the offered DHCP address.

The DHCP offer message contains the offered DHCP address

9. In the example screenshot in this assignment, there is no relay agent between the

host and the DHCP server. What values in the trace indicate the absence of a relay

agent? Is there a relay agent in your experiment? If so what is the IP address of

the agent?
10. Explain the purpose of the router and subnet mask lines in the DHCP offer

message.

11. In the DHCP trace file noted in footnote 2, the DHCP server offers a specific IP

address to the client (see also question 8. above). In the client’s response to the first server OFFER
message, does the client accept this IP address? Where in the

client’s RESPONSE is the client’s requested address?

Yes, the client accepts the offer

Offer

12. Explain the purpose of the lease time. How long is the lease time in your

experiment?

13. What is the purpose of the DHCP release message? Does the DHCP server issue

an acknowledgment of receipt of the client’s DHCP request? What would happen

if the client’s DHCP release message is lost?


14. Clear the bootp filter from your Wireshark window. Were any ARP packets sent

or received during the DHCP packet-exchange period? If so, explain the purpose

of those ARP packets.

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