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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE glossentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary//EN" "glossary.dtd">
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| 3 | <glossentry xml:lang="en-us" id="glossentry-dhcp">
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| 4 | <glossterm>DHCP</glossterm>
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| 5 | <glossdef>
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| 6 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This enables a networking device in a network to
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| 7 | acquire its IP address and other networking details automatically, in order to avoid
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| 8 | having to configure all devices in a network with fixed IP addresses. <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
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| 9 | has a built-in DHCP server that delivers an IP addresses to a virtual machine when networking
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| 10 | is configured to NAT. See <xref href="networkingdetails.dita"/>.
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| 11 | </glossdef>
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| 12 | </glossentry>
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