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DHCP Assignment

1. The DHCP messages are sent via UDP and use port numbers 67 for the client and 68 for the server. 2. The first four-message DHCP exchange between the client and server includes a Discover message with source port 68 and destination port 67, an Offer message with source port 68 and destination port 67, a Request message with source port 68 and destination port 67, and an ACK message with source port 68 and destination port 67. 3. The client's link-layer address is bc:e7:12:a4:a7:49 and the DHCP server's IP address is 10.102.136.1. 4. The Discover message type field differentiates it

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DHCP Assignment

1. The DHCP messages are sent via UDP and use port numbers 67 for the client and 68 for the server. 2. The first four-message DHCP exchange between the client and server includes a Discover message with source port 68 and destination port 67, an Offer message with source port 68 and destination port 67, a Request message with source port 68 and destination port 67, and an ACK message with source port 68 and destination port 67. 3. The client's link-layer address is bc:e7:12:a4:a7:49 and the DHCP server's IP address is 10.102.136.1. 4. The Discover message type field differentiates it

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Computer Networks

DHCP Lab

Md Tauqeer Alam

21/11/EC/016
1. Are DHCP messages sent over UDP or TCP?
-> The DHCP messages are sent via UDP.

2. Draw a timing datagram illustrating the sequence of the first four-packet


Discover/Offer/Request/ACK DHCP exchange between the client and server. For
each packet, indicated the source and destination port numbers. Are the port
numbers the same as in the example given in this lab assignment?
->

3. What is the link-layer (e.g., Ethernet) address of your host?


->Destination: Cisco_a4:a7:49 (bc:e7:12:a4:a7:49)

4. What values in the DHCP discover message differentiate this message from the
DHCP request message?
->
 DHCP message type
 Request includes a server identifier field.

5. What is the value of the Transaction-ID in each of the first four


(Discover/Offer/Request/ACK) DHCP messages? What are the values of the
Transaction-ID in the second set (Request/ACK) set of DHCP messages? What is
the purpose of the Transaction-ID field?

Transaction id in first four:0xc8542e72


Purpose : Transaction ID is different so that the host can differentiate between
different requests made by the user.

6. A host uses DHCP to obtain an IP address, among other things. But a host’s IP
address is not confirmed until the end of the four-message exchange! If the IP
address is not set until the end of the four-message exchange, then what values
are used in the IP datagrams in the four-message exchange? For each of the four
DHCP messages (Discover/Offer/Request/ACK DHCP), indicate the source and
destination IP addresses that are carried in the encapsulating IP datagram.
->Discover: source->0.0.0.0 destination->255.255.255.255
Offer:source: 10.102.136.1 destination : 10.102.142.41
Request:source:0.0.0.0 destination: 255.255.255.255
ACK DHCP:source: 10.102.136.1 destination:10.102.142.41

7. What is the IP address of your DHCP server?


-> DHCP Server IP address : 10.102.136.1

8. What IP address is the DHCP server offering to your host in the DHCP Offer
message? Indicate which DHCP message contains the offered DHCP address.
-> My client is offered 10.102.142.41 by the DHCP server. The offer message contains
the DHCP address offered by the server.

9. In the example screenshot in this assignment, there is no relay agent between


the host and the DHCP server. What values in the trace indicate the absence of a
relay agent? Is there a relay agent in your experiment? If so what is the IP address
of the agent?
->In the example given, the value that indicates there is relay agent is 0.0.0.0, in the
case of my capture, I also have a value for the relay agent 0.0.0.0 including that I too
did not have a relay agent.

10. Explain the purpose of the router and subnet mask lines in the DHCP offer
message.
-> Router line indicates where the clients should send messages by default. Subnet
mask tells the client which subnet to use.

11. In the DHCP trace file noted in footnote 2, the DHCP server offers a specific IP
address to the client (see also question 8. above). In the client’s response to the
first server OFFER message, does the client accept this IP address? Where in the
client’s RESPONSE is the client’s requested address?
→Yes, the host accepts the offered IP address as the requested IP address for the
request packet is the same as the offered IP address.

12. Explain the purpose of the lease time. How long is the lease time in your
experiment?
-> The purpose of the lease time is to tell the client how long they can use the specific
IP address assigned by the server before they will have to be assigned a new one. The
lease time in my experiment is 12hours.

13. What is the purpose of the DHCP release message? Does the DHCP server
issue
an acknowledgment of receipt of the client’s DHCP request? What would
happen
if the client’s DHCP release message is lost?
-> The purpose of the DHCP release message is to release the IP address back to the
server. There is no verification that the release message has been received by the
server.
If the message is lost, the client releases the IP address, but the server will not
reassign that address until the client lease on the address expires.

14. Clear the bootp filter from your Wireshark window. Were any ARP packets
sent
or received during the DHCP packet-exchange period? If so, explain the purpose
of those ARP packets.
Yes, ARP packets were sent the ARP packets that show up are there in order to help
sort out the mac and IP addresses. The next ARP request is to find mac address of IP
10.94.8.11 which is the ip of jnucisi.jnu.ac.in

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