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DHCP

DHCP is a service that uppon request assigns IP address and other paramaters to a machine on a network.

It solves the issue of having to manually set up every device

What is a port

An IP address identifies specific machine on a network, a port identifies specific application running on that machine.

A port is a number between [1 - 65,535] that is assigned by the OS to any application that wants to communicate over the network. Can be choosen at random, can be hard set.

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How Router's NAT works