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Draw the DHCP packet format. With reference to this which fields determine:

i) The no. of hops a packet can travel ?

ii) The command is a request or reply?

iii) Why there is a need of transaction Id apart from IP address and port address?

iv) What is the maximum number of seconds that can be stored in the Number of Seconds field of a DHCP packet?

v) Which field determine that the response from the server is unicast or broadcast?

vi) If DHCP packet is request from client, which fields are used?

vii) If DHCP packet is a reply message from server, which fields are used?

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1) Flop count: This is an 8 bit field defining the maximum number of hops the packet can travel.

2) Operation code: This 8 bit field defines the type of DHCP packet request (1) or reply (2)

3) Transaction Id: This is a 4 byte field carrying an integer.The transaction …

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