Key Terms

Review the following list of key terms:

  • Automatic Private Addressing (APIPA)— A Link Local Addressing technique used on some Microsoft systems.

  • BOOTP— A protocol used primarily to assign addresses to diskless clients.

  • DHCP— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A protocol that provides dynamic assignment of IP addresses.

  • DHCP client— A computer that contains TCP/IP software and is not manually configured with TCP/IP parameters.

  • DHCP server— A computer that is capable of configuring DHCP client computers with an IP address, a subnet mask, and other TCP/IP configuration parameters.

  • DNS Service Discovery— A means for clients to learn about services on a zero configuration network.

  • Link Local Addressing— A technique for zero configuration IP ...

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