# DHCP Local Server Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the DHCP local server on the E Series router. This chapter contains the following sections:

- Embedded DHCP Local Server Overview
- Equal-Access Mode Overview
- Standalone Mode Overview
- DHCP Local Server Prerequisites
- DHCP Local Server Configuration Tasks
- DHCP Unique ID for Clients and Servers Overview
- Authentication and Accounting of IPv6 Subscribers Using the DHCPv6 Local Server Overview
- Interoperation of Authentication of IPv6 Clients and Display of Active Subscriber Information