Which protocol is widely used in Dynamic assignment?

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• Prajakta Pandit   -Posted on 12 Oct 15
  
  - Today networks have grown larger and the number of devices continues to increase. Also increased in mobile computing where devices come and go from network.
  
  - This has led to the large scale adoption of dynamic IP assignment.
  
  - There are two protocols are used to support dynamic IP address assignment
  1. BOOTP
  2. DHCP
  
  - BOOTP is an older protocol and not used much.
  
  - DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is widely used.
  
  - The problem with the BOOTP protocol is that the mapping between IP and hardware address is static.
  
  - The BOOTP protocol still requires a network administrator to configure the server.
  
  - BOOTP protocol would not work with mobile devices or networks where devices are constantly being added and removed.
  
  - DHCP protocol is designed to support true dynamic assignment of IP addresses.
  
  - The DHCP server manages a pool of IP addresses and information about client configuration parameters such as, default gateway, domain name, the name servers, and time servers.

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