Q. Can DHCP send the IP address of a WINS server to our DHCP clients?

A. Yes, using the "generic tag". Use the generic tag to specify RFC vendor fields as specified in RFC 1084. The syntax of the generic tags is ‘Tn’ where n is the vendor field tag number. The number for the WINS server is 44 and the value of the field should be the IP address in hexadecimal notation. For example, if the IP address of the WINS server was 192.168.1.1 then the following tag would be used:

T44="0xc0a80101"