DHCP Lease Stages

1. Lease Request - The client sends a broadcast requesting an IP address

2. Lease Offer - The server sends the above information and marks the offered address as unavailable. The message sent is a DHCPOFFER broadcast message.

3. Lease Acceptance - The first offer received by the client is accepted. The acceptance is sent from the client as a broadcast (DHCPREQUEST message) including the IP address of the DNS server that sent the accepted offer. Other DHCP servers retract their offers and mark the offered address as available and the accepted address as unavailable.

4. Server lease acknowledgement - The server sends a DHCPACK or a DHCPNACK if an unavailable address was requested.


DHCP discover message - The initial broadcast sent by the client to obtain a DHCP lease. It contains the client MAC address and computer name. This is a broadcast using 255.255.255.255 as the destination address and 0.0.0.0 as the source address.

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