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DHCP explained

DHCP explained

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DHCP explained

- Once you have DNS configured and all setup, we can now move on to another network service provided by OS X Server that you're actually kind of unlikely to use on OS X Server. I do want to talk about it briefly though because it may help you to understand what's happening elsewhere on your network. Here in the DHCP area in OS X Server, we have a very simple interface to configure, the Settings and some settings for clients that might connect. Under settings, we have Networks. Now, the system is very smart and it has already configured this network to match the network that we are actually on. If I double click on this, you'll see that it's a 10.0.0 network on Ethernet 1 which is the Ethernet port that we're running this from. It's giving a staring IP address of 10.0.0.2. That wouldn't be very good because that what our server address is. It's also giving us an ending IP address of 253. This essentially uses the entire usable range for the subnet mask that it's provided which is…

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