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Every computer on the internet needs an IP address. Depending on the network you are on, you might be told what address to use, which you then manually configure in your operating system, or more often than not, the network you are connected to will automatically assign you an address. That automatic assignment is done through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). For that to work in Vista, you need to have this service running. If you have a manually assigned IP address, you can safely disable this.
Display Name:
DHCP Client
Service Name:
Dhcp
Process Name:
svchost.exe
Description:
Registers and updates IP addresses and DNS records for this computer. If this service is stopped, this computer will not receive dynamic IP addresses and DNS updates. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.
Path to Executable:
%windir%\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceNetworkRestricted
Default Startup:
- Home Basic: Automatic
- Home Premium: Automatic
- Business: Automatic
- Enterprise: Automatic
- Ultimate: Automatic
Log On As:
Local Service
Desktop Interaction:
No
Depends On:
- Network Store Interface Service
Required For:
- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
Memory:
N/A
CPU:
N/A
Do you know something about this service that I don't? Please leave a comment below so I, and everyone else reading this, can benefit from your knowledge!
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Comments
Eric S Johnson
May 30, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Wish Vista’s DHCP service allowed for restrictions, exclusions, reservatoins, reassignment of the available address space, etc. … as far as I can tell, you turn it on and “hope for the best” and if some device on your LAN requires a static IP address, you can only hope Vista never randomly assigns exactly that address to any other device asking for a lease.
Joe
May 30, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I hadn’t heard of clients dealing with those, I think they are typically things controlled by the DHCP server. It would be cool if a client knew it had a static IP address, and told a DHCP server so it wouldn’t hand out the address to any other clients. Perhaps some can, I’m not a network specialist, so I’m not to familiar with what DHCP is capable of these days…
Eric S Johnson
May 30, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Yes, you’re right, those are server-controlled functions–what I meant to say was, I wish that when Vista functions as a DHCP server (in an ICS environment using NAT), one had control over these aspects of its DHCP serving
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