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Further Study and DHCP Resources

RFCs:

The latest version of DHCP core details is defined by Droms [RFC 2131]. Alexander and Droms [RFC 2132] address the DHCP options mechanism and define all currently known standard options, as well as how a new option should be registered.

Among interested issues addressed in these documents are detailed elaborations on the client-server interactions schematically presented in this project (including various aspects of both required and optional protocol features), how exactly the messages are constructed (which fields are filled and how), details of the server and client side configuration parameters storage organization (as well as other issues of both client and server design), more detailed technical issues on how DHCP and BOOTP interoperate and detailed descriptions of some minor DHCP message details and other protocol and implementation details not covered here.

These two, and other important RFCs ,related to DHCP, are listed in the References section. Addressing those, and other RFC sites can be done through the following list.

Some RFC Sites:

The RFC editor Homepage
The official RFC Site.
Includes information about the RFC series and its process, an RFC index, a keyword search engine, other RFC links and more.
The ISI RFC ftp site
Plain text RFCs ftp site of the ISI organization.
The Ohio State University  RFC Site
Includes a complete index to all RFCs online and a keyword search engine.

Interesting DHCP Sites:

IETF  Dynamic Host Configuration (DHC) Working group
The IETF group that deals with developing and enhancing the DHCP protocol.
The Internet Society (ISOC):  Problems and Solutions of DHCP.
A good review of DHCP including an overview of a DHCP implementation and some DHCP problems found while implementing.
DHCP mini-HOWTO, by Vladimir Vuksan.
How to setup a DHCP Server and Client.
Written for Linux, but will generally fit for any UNIX as an intro. (For specific differences on your system try looking up the manual: man -k dhcp)
DHCP information at the University of Oregon
Includes more advanced links collection, especially good for a user stuck with configuring DHCP software on Windows 95 or Macintosh. Also available are links to different DHCP software (both servers and clients) you can get for free.

DHCP Resources Sites:

Net-Man's Hotlist: DHCP Resources by Alan S. Dobkin.
A very big DHCP resources site including DHCP servers implementations.
dhcp.org - Resources for DHCP.
A site maintained by Ralph Droms, writer of the RFC 2131 on DHCP.
Quadritek: DHCP Resources

DHCP FAQ Sites:

NT DHCP FAQ by NetworkDNA.com.
DHCP FAQ by John Wobus.
DHCP Troubleshooting by the 'Computing Help Desk'.
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