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/!\ ToDo: Note that this page is out of date. ISC has deprecated the ISC DHCP suite and suggests using Kea as a replacement. This page should be updated to reflect that.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Installation
  3. Configuration

Introduction

When you set up a Local Area Network (LAN), a client needs to have certain information, such as the IP-address of its interface, the IP-address of at least one domain name server, and the IP-address of a server in the LAN that serves as a router to the internet. In the manual setup you have to type in this information for each client anew. With the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) the computers can do that automatically for you. This is particularly convenient for connecting laptops to the network.

For a simple configuration of your network you can set up one computer (e.g. the one connected to the internet) as a DHCP server and each of the other computers as a DHCP_Client.

Installation

Install the kea-dhcp4-server package.

Configuration

See the Kea reference manual at https://kb.isc.org/docs/kea-administrator-reference-manual

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