About the DHCPv4 Server

DHCP provides network configuration parameters, such as IP addresses, to DHCP clients. The threat defense device can provide a DHCP server to DHCP clients attached to threat defense device interfaces. The DHCP server provides network configuration parameters directly to DHCP clients.

An IPv4 DHCP client uses a broadcast rather than a multicast address to reach the server. The DHCP client listens for messages on UDP port 68; the DHCP server listens for messages on UDP port 67.

The DHCP server for IPv6 is not supported; you can, however, enable DHCP relay for IPv6 traffic.