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What is reservation in DHCP?

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Question added by Aamir Sheikh , IT Supervisor , Aims International Co Ltd
Date Posted: 2016/11/30
Muhammad Ayaz Ahmed
by Muhammad Ayaz Ahmed , Technical Support Engineer , Ascertia

As we know, DHCP stands for dynamic host configuration protocol and it uses to assigned IP to all devices automatically, from which we reserve some IP for some specific purpose and that's why we dont wants to assign those IP to automatically for this we use a scope Reserve IP and enter the range of IP that we wants to reserve. For example we wants to reserve First 10 IP we enter range of IP 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10.

MOHAMMED ZAID
by MOHAMMED ZAID , System Administrator , Concentrix Technologies India Private Limited

Users can configure a DHCP reservation in their DHCP server when they need to reserve a permanent IP address assignment. Reservations are used for DHCP enabled devices like print and file servers or other application servers that always have the fixed IP address on the network

Haja Moinudeen
by Haja Moinudeen , Systems Administrator , Alpha Data

 

v  DHCP Reservation is used to hand out a specific IP address to a particular client.

v  Reservation are created based on MAC Address

v  DHCP reservation is a feature in the DHCP server that allows the DHCP administrators to reserve one or more IP addresses for particular mission-critical computers only. In order to configure DHCP reservation, the administrators are required to know the physical addresses a.k.a. MAC addresses of the target computers for which the particular IP addresses are to be reserved. Once the MAC addresses are known, the administrators can then reserve the appropriate IP addresses by mapping them with the MAC addresses.

 

v  Useful when delivering IP addresses t devices that would normally use static IP addresses

APOORV  GUPTA
by APOORV GUPTA , Engineer , Delhi metro rail corporation

It is a permanent IP address assignment to a specific DHCP client.

Faij Mohamed
by Faij Mohamed , Computer Network Engineer/ IT System Technician , SMR Links Middle East Technology

DHCP Reservation is an advanced feature on the Linksys Wi-Fi Router. It is especially useful when you are setting up a computer as well as wired or wireless network devices such as printers, network storage, gaming device, or server computers that you want to have access using a specific IP Address

Muhammad khizer Butt
by Muhammad khizer Butt , Legal specialists , Legal specialists & Debt Collectors

Reservation mean it's your reserve ip which provide the specific persons or use in emergency... simply means it's used for your reserved ip for persons which you allow the same ip when they log on here is other thing when the person on reserved ip DHCP server read his mac address when they are log on again DHCP server give them same ip.

 

 

il y a réservation DHCP lorsqu'une adresse IP au sein d'une étendue est mise de coté pour etre utilisé par un client DHCP spécifique

Mohammed AbdulAziz Yaser
by Mohammed AbdulAziz Yaser , Network Engineer , Zamil Architectural Holding Group

To provide specific IP address to specific Host machine.

 

Rajesh C S
by Rajesh C S , senior Level 3 , Ernst & Young

Reservation of DHCP means  We can allocation a pool of ip subnet that can be dedicated for special clients . If a client request an ip address from that particular subnet only the ip will be released .

Azhar Iqbal
by Azhar Iqbal , Network and system engineer , DIrectorate of Information Technology, Govt. of KPK

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is protocol that provide its client an automatic IP with its IP adresses and other configuration like default gateway and subnet mask

johny babu kondra
by johny babu kondra , system administrator , pi-international global solutions

dynamic host configuration protocol where it enable server to automatically assign ip address to computer.