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Byadmin|September3,2004

1. DescribehowtheDHCPleaseisobtained.Itsafourstepprocessconsistingof(a)IP
request,(b)IPoffer,IPselectionand(d)acknowledgement.
2. IcantseemtoaccesstheInternet,donthaveanyaccesstothecorporatenetwork
andonipconfigmyaddressis169.254.*.*.Whathappened?The169.254.*.*netmask
isassignedtoWindowsmachinesrunning98/2000/XPiftheDHCPserverisnotavailable.
ThenameforthetechnologyisAPIPA(AutomaticPrivateInternetProtocolAddressing).
3. WeveinstalledanewWindowsbasedDHCPserver,however,theusersdonot
seemtobegettingDHCPleasesoffofit.Theservermustbeauthorizedfirstwiththe
ActiveDirectory.
4. Howcanyouforcetheclienttogiveupthedhcpleaseifyouhaveaccesstothe
clientPC?ipconfig/release
5. WhatauthenticationoptionsdoWindows2000Servershaveforremoteclients?
PAP,SPAP,CHAP,MSCHAPandEAP.
6. WhatarethenetworkingprotocoloptionsfortheWindowsclientsifforsome
reasonyoudonotwanttouseTCP/IP?NWLink(Novell),NetBEUI,AppleTalk(Apple).
7. WhatisdatalinklayerintheOSIreferencemodelresponsiblefor?Datalinklayer
islocatedabovethephysicallayer,butbelowthenetworklayer.Takingrawdatabits
andpackagingthemintoframes.Thenetworklayerwillberesponsibleforaddressingthe
frames,whilethephysicallayerisreponsibleforretrievingandsendingrawdatabits.
8. Whatisbindingorder?Theorderbywhichthenetworkprotocolsareusedforclientserver
communications.Themostfrequentlyusedprotocolsshouldbeatthetop.
9. Howdocryptographybasedkeysensurethevalidityofdatatransferredacross
thenetwork?EachIPpacketisassignedachecksum,soifthechecksumsdonotmatchon
bothreceivingandtransmittingends,thedatawasmodifiedorcorrupted.
10. ShouldwedeployIPSECbasedsecurityorcertificatebasedsecurity?Theyare
reallytwodifferenttechnologies.IPSecsecurestheTCP/IPcommunicationandprotectsthe
integrityofthepackets.Certificatebasedsecurityensuresthevalidityofauthenticatedclients
andservers.
11. WhatisLMHOSTSfile?ItsafilestoredonahostmachinethatisusedtoresolveNetBIOS
tospecificIPaddresses.
12. WhatsthedifferencebetweenforwardlookupandreverselookupinDNS?
Forwardlookupisnametoaddress,thereverselookupisaddresstoname.
13. HowcanyourecoverafileencryptedusingEFS?Usethedomainrecoveryagent.
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VadivelArunachalam
Posted2/5/2006at5:22am|Permalink

Hi
Question:Ihave8differentand8difernetDHCPscopeforeverynetwork,imeanfor
everysubnets,but,whenallthesubnetstartingatonetime,iwanttomakethe2nd
subnetworkwiththehighprority,imeanthe2ndsunetshouldgettehIPaddressfrom
theDHCPserverfirst?Howisitpossible?

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MuraliKrishnan
Posted10/11/2006at12:56pm|Permalink

Hi
Question:Ihave8differentand8difernetDHCPscopeforeverynetwork,imeanfor
everysubnets,but,whenallthesubnetstartingatonetime,iwanttomakethe2nd
subnetworkwiththehighprority,imeanthe2ndsunetshouldgettehIPaddressfrom
theDHCPserverfirst?Howisitpossible?
pleasemailmebak.
Thanksandregards

Subramanyam
Posted11/7/2006at3:46am|Permalink

Hi
Question:Ihave8differentand8difernetDHCPscopeforeverynetwork,imeanfor
everysubnets,but,whenallthesubnetstartingatonetime,iwanttomakethe2nd
subnetworkwiththehighprority,imeanthe2ndsunetshouldgettehIPaddressfrom
theDHCPserverfirst?Howisitpossible?
pleasemailmebak.
Thanksandregards
Subramanyam

Jacob
Posted8/18/2007at12:06am|Permalink

Ihaveaprinter(dhcpenabled).thereare2dhcpserversbotharerunning.Whenthe
printerisswitchedonWhichDHCPserverwillitgettheipfrom.
CanitbeconfiguredtoalwaysuseonespecificDHCPserver

shankark
Posted10/6/2007at1:01am|Permalink

whatisdiffrencebetweennormalIDEdiskandRAIDdisk?

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Nixon
Posted10/8/2007at3:56am|Permalink

Hi,
HowicanconfiguredandtroubleshootDHCPserverformulipltlenetworkandlarge
domainenvironment

vijay
Posted1/13/2008at3:05am|Permalink

hi
DHCPscopecreatedforeightdifferentnetworkbutDHCPServerisoneofthe
networkintheeightnetwork.SoDHCPserverFirstwillgivetheipforitsown
subnet.thenrestofthenetworkitwillnotgivetheipuntilltherequestcomeformthe
differentnetwork.forthatreasonweneedtoactiverelayagent.heretherelayagentis
router.routeristhebridgeforthedifferentnetwork.

Naveen
Posted6/11/2008at12:34am|Permalink

DHCPfourstepprocessconsist
Discover
Offer
Requests
Acknowledge

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