DHCP Offer VS DHCP Acknowledgment Question

in CCNA & CCENT
At Which Phase of the DHCP process will a DHCP Server provide the client
with an ip address, subnet mask, and default gatway ?
Offer: Sent by a DHCP server to offer to lease to that client a specific
ip address (and inform the client of it's other parameters)
Acknowledgment: Sent by the DHCP server to assign the address, and to list the mask, default router, and DNS server IP addresses.
with an ip address, subnet mask, and default gatway ?
Offer: Sent by a DHCP server to offer to lease to that client a specific
ip address (and inform the client of it's other parameters)
Acknowledgment: Sent by the DHCP server to assign the address, and to list the mask, default router, and DNS server IP addresses.
Comments
Client / Server
Discover -->........
.............<-- Offer
Request -->.........
........<-- Acknowledgement
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So, yes, you can say that the OFFER message "provides" (provisionally) an IP address etc to the client.
If you have the time, a couple of hours, you can set up a box to capture the DHCP traffic yourself. There's a tool on Linux called DHCPDump which makes this a little easier.