What are the different types of DHCP server?
Manual allocation is another method that can be used in situations where an administrator wants to know the MAC (Media Access Control) address of the DHCP client before assigning an IP address. An administrator may want to do this for security reasons, or she may simply want to know who is utilizing network resources for billing purposes. Manual allocation is typically used in academic settings. Manual allocation can also be used for network devices such as servers and network printers. In this case, the MAC address of the server is used to create a reservation. With reservations, changes can be made to the IP configurations of all servers in a particular scope or even the entire enterprise. For example, if an administrator wants all servers to point to another DNS server, she could simply change the Name Server option for the scope where the servers were located. When a server renews its address lease, it will receive the updated Name Server option. As you can see, manual allocation i
