DHCP Manuel

Alisha VanNatter

Justin Endicott

Chris Perkins

DHCP is an internet protocol for automating the configuration of computers that use TCP/IP. DHCP can be used to automatically assign IP addressed, to deliver TCP/IP stack configuration parameters such as the subnet mask and default reouter, and to provide other configuration information such as the addresses for printers, time and news servers.

Installing DHCP

1. Click on control panel and then Add/Remove Programs

2. Click on Add/Remove windows components for the wizard

3. Click Network services option and then click details

4. Check mark the DHCP box and then click ok

5. Press next to install DHCP

Authorizing our DHCP using Active directory

1. Logon as a member of yahoo.com (This is an example login with your admin. name) administration.

2. Launch DHCP from Admin. Tools in Control Panel.

3. Right-click DHCP and then click manage authorize servers

4. Now you will have the authroized DHCP server list. Click Authorize.

5. Enter the name or IP address of the DHCP server you want to authorize and press ok.

6. Click close to exit Manage Authorized Servers.

Create DHCP Scope

1. Logon to the administrators group

2. Click on DHCP from the Admin tools.

3. Right click your DHCP server and select new scope.

4. In the new scope, click next.

5. Enter a name and a description for scope and then click next.

6. Enter the range of IP address in the scope and the subnet mask and the click next.

7. If you want to exclude addresses, you need to enter them in the ass exclusions.

8. You will now enter how long a client should be permitted to use an IP address in the Lease Duration window and then click next.

9. Now in the configure DHCP Options window you will choose either YES for TCP/IP or No to configure later and then click next.

10. If YES was answered in the previous question you will now be able to enter the Router/default Gateway address, DNS, and WINS server addresses. Click Next.

11. An Activate Scope window will now appear you can either choose yes or no. Yes will allow clients to obtain addresses and No will allow you to finish your configurations and activate it later.

DHCP Client Configuration

Our group had trouble at this stage because we did not automatically obtain the IP addresses, we manually assigned them causing us not to be a DHCP client. A few of the commands to be used with this are as follows:

IPCONFIG /ALL

This one displays all IP configuration parameters

IPCONFIG /RELEASE

This one forces the client to release their leased IP address.

IPCONFIG /RENEW

This one forces the client to request a new IP address.

As I have mentioned above, here is where our group had problems in making a computer to be a DHCP client. We needed to obtain an ip address automatically.

Don't forget to do this on your other computers not your DHCP server.