DHCP/BOOT server allows computers and other networked hardware to be configured automatically. It can be used to operate diskless workstations.

Server allocates to a client an IP address - dynamically using defined address pool or based on static connections between MAC and IP addresses. Additionally, it transmits to a client another parameters required for correct operation, like subnetwork mask, gateway address, domain name, DNS, NTP and print servers addresses, routing tables and many others.

It can also transmit to a diskless workstation an address of a server allowing to download the operating system.