Academic Writing

To answer this question you are asked to take on the role of a newly employed Systems Administrator for a medium sized business. One of your duties is to administer all of the Local Area Networks (LANs). Upon initial investigation you discover that the network is using fixed IP addresses for all of the connected hardware. A considerable amount of your time is taken up with assigning and configuring IP addresses for visiting staff and staff that tend to move around the company frequently. This is obviously a poor use of your time. You decide that by implementing DHCP across all of the LANs you can save yourself considerable work which in turn can save the company money over a period of time. Upon suggesting this to the manager you have been asked to make your case in writing. This should be in the form of a report which includes the following: • a description of IP addressing in general, • what DHCP is, • how DHCP works, • why DHCP would be beneficial to the organisation, and • Highlight the monetary and organisational benefits by comparing the two addressing methods (static and dynamic). The report should be approximately 1,500 words (minimum 1,000, maximum 3,000); you can include diagrams if you find it helps describe how DHCP works.