What is DHCP?
It does name resolution (one more?!)
- DNS resolves IP numbers and FQDN
- WINS resolves NetBIOS names and IP numbers
- ARP resolves IP numbers and MAC addresses (outgoing packets)
- DHCP resolves IP numbers and MAC addresses dynamically
The Windows BootP
- BootP is a table of IP numbers and MAC addresses on a server
- DHCP is a dynamic BootP