How To Install dhcp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp
on CentOS 7.
What is dhcp
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it easier to administer a large network. To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent), and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhcp package provides the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dhcp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dhcp.
Install dhcp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dhcp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dhcp on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dhcp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dhcp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dhcp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.