What Is An Ip Helper Address And How To Configure It
Normally, DHCP servers only listen for and respond to broadcast packets on the local network segment. However, if there is a DHCP server on a different network segment, the client device will not receive a response and will not be able to obtain an IP address. How IP Helper can help in Forwarding DHCP Packets? An IP Helper-address is used to forward DHCP broadcast packets from the client device to the DHCP server on the different network segments....