Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Benefits of DHCP

Deploying DHCP on your enterprise network provides the following benefits:

Safe and reliable configuration. DHCP minimizes configuration errors caused by manual IP address configuration, such as typographical errors, as well as address conflicts caused by a currently assigned IP address accidentally being reissued to another computer.
Reduced network administration.
- TCP/IP configuration is centralized and automated.
- Network administrators can centrally define global and subnet-specific TCP/IP configurations.
- Clients can be automatically assigned a full range of additional TCP/IP configuration values by using DHCP options.
- Address changes for client configurations that must be updated frequently, such as remote access clients that move around constantly, can be made efficiently and automatically when the client restarts in its new location.
- Most routers can forward DHCP configuration requests, eliminating the requirement of setting up a DHCP server on every subnet, unless there is another reason to do so.