DHCP: How Your PC Gets Its IP Address

Explains the concept of DHCP, an application-layer protocol that your own computer probably uses to get an IP address from your network.

00:00 Intro
00:14 A world without DHCP
01:26 DHCP to the rescue
02:15 The four-step process

My DHCP video was originally uploaded on September 7th 2013, but I made a new version after an attentive viewer pointed out some inaccuracies.

== Further reading ==
Can I have multiple DHCP servers on one network?
http://serverfault.com/questions/3685...

How can IP conflicts be resolved?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/13349...

The fine print: in some cases DHCP offer and ACK messages are unicast
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...