Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

The main purpose of DHCP is to allocate IP addresses across a network on system startup. DHCP ensures that the correct configuration is entered, as client configuration is updated automatically. DHCP ...

First, Router1 is configured as a DHCP server as well as a default gateway for 2 PCs. With excluded addresses, Router1 is prevented from leasing certain IPs to clients to avoid IP address conflicts.

I have a question for the networking gurus here. I've inherited a network here at work because I seem to be the computer geek. Getting to the question, our internet and network setup has our server ...

Abstract: This chapter describes how to create a solid TCP/IP network with Cisco routers and switches. TCP first came on the scene way back in 1973, and in 1978, it was divided into two distinct ...