Since David Vos wrote a DHCP server as an honors project in the Computer Networks course at Calvin during the fall of 2001, I asked him to provide solutions for this chapter. He did so, and reports that the DHCP client is a difficult exercise.

The chapter asks you to write a time client, a DNS client, and finally a DHCP client.

David reports that he learned a great deal by examing the appropriate type packets to see what was really going on.