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IP Services Simulator
DHCP DORA — step by step
Click Next step to walk through Discover → Offer → Request → Ack. Toggle the relay scenario to see how ip helper-address converts the client\'s broadcast into a unicast to a DHCP server on a different subnet.
Current step: Idle — click Next
Packet on the wire
Click Next step to send a packet…
What this step does
DHCP begins as a broadcast because the client has no IP yet. Click Next to see the first message.
DHCP state machine
INIT→ SELECTING→ REQUESTING→ BOUND
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