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by mingus88 903 days ago
The vagueries of DHCP can be learned best with a home lab, IMO

Back in the day, setting up random hardware or VMs on an isolated subnet taught you everything you needed to know about low level network protocols like DHCP, STP, BOOTP, ARP, RARP, and how to sniff it all with wire shark when you weren’t getting a lease

Containers have largely hidden this plumbing from us at a test/dev layer