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Dynamic Host Control Protocol
 (
DHCP
) server, with a default class C 
(
/24
) network. Essentially, this means that if you do not perform any configuration 
at all, you're limited to 254 addresses. For a small office, this may seem like plenty. 
After all, if you don't even have 254 employees at your company, that number may 
seem like overkill. As I mentioned before, potential growth is always something to 
keep in mind. But even if we remove that from the equation, IP addresses are used 
up quicker than you'd think nowadays—even when it comes to internal addressing. 
An average user may consume three IP addresses each, and sometimes more. 

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