In this lab, we’ll take a quick look at dhcp. dhcp is covered in section 4.4.2 of the text1. recall that dhcp is used extensively in corporate, university and home-network wired and wireless lans to dynamically assign ip addresses to hosts (as well as to configure other network configuration information). this lab is brief, as we’ll only examine the dhcp packets captured by a host. if you also have administrative access to your dhcp server, you may want to repeat this lab after making some configuration changes (such as the lease time). if you have a router at home, you most likely can configure your dhcp server. because many linux/unix machines (especially those that serve many users) have a static ip address and because manipulating dhcp on such machines typically requires super-user privileges, we’ll only present a windows version of this lab below.