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title: "Which protocol does DHCP use at the Transport layer?"  
description: "Which protocol does DHCP use at the Transport layer?"  
author: "Jiya Aahuja"  
published: 2017-11-20  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30968/which-protocol-does-dhcp-use-at-the-transport-layer  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["networking", "dhcp", "transport layer"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Which protocol does DHCP use at the Transport layer?

Which [protocol](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/55090/what-is-stateless-protocol) does [DHCP](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157830/what-is-dhcp-and-what-are-some-of-the-benefits-of-using-dhcp-to-manage-ip-addresses-on-a-network) use at the [Transport layer](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31606/which-layer-in-the-tcp-ip-stack-is-equivalent-to-the-transport-layer-of-the-osi-model)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hemant Patel

User Datagram Protocol is a connection network service at the [Transport](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32070/india-s-first-ever-national-rail-and-transport-university-nrtu-will-set-up-in) [layer](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80945/ozone-layer-is-healing-up-on-it-s-own), and DHCP uses this connectionless service.\


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