Musings and hacks on DHCP

• Autores: Doug Hughes
• Localización: ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE, ISSN 1044-6397, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Sysadmin and Networking), págs. 38-42
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When you think of DHCP, where do your thoughts tend? Perhaps to assigning temporary addresses to devices. Perhaps to lease maintenance and netblock assignment. Perhaps as the original extension to BOOTP [1]. DHCP is a lot of things to a lot of people, sometimes maligned, often underappreciated, and quite often used without full comprehension.

    After an introduction, I plan to point out some interesting possibilities, implementation issues, and potential novel uses for DHCP that most sites likely haven’t considered. At the end, I’ll address our implementation and how it increases our operational efficiency