This is the server from version 3 of the Internet Software Consortium's implementation of DHCP. For more information, visit http://www.isc.org. . Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol like BOOTP (actually dhcpd includes much of the functionality of bootpd). It gives client machines "leases" for IP addresses and can automatically set their network configuration. . This is the DHCP server with LDAP patches applied to it.