Lesson 5 of 13 · Local network
DHCP, ARP and static routing
Objective
Understand the three mechanisms that allow a workstation plugged in at the Tangier branch to reach a server in Casablanca: it receives an address (DHCP), finds the neighboring machine to hand its packet to (ARP), and each router chooses the next path (routing table).
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