IPAM Technology Applications

IPAM technologies form the very foundation of IP network for automating IP address assignment and humanizing network navigation. These technologies have also proven indispensable in enabling and securing key network applications, from automated network bootstrapping and services location to mobility support. This chapter discusses technology applications that rely on DHCP, which are implicitly reliant on the consistency of DHCP configurations with the IP address plan. It also covers those applications requiring special purpose DHCP configurations, including device‐specific configuration and broadband provisioning. The chapter also summarizes the most common lookup applications of DNS. The most common DNS application is host name resolution, looking up a host domain name and obtaining its corresponding IP address. Two resource record types are supported for IP address lookups, one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6 addresses.