Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:03:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031641110.70959-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19990903141644.J49271@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Will/could that support configuration via DHCP? > > > > Yes; initially it will do only bootp, but DHCP is assumed to be coming. > > IMHpersonalO, bootp is suffient. > > >From RFC 2131: [...snip...] > > I do not believe the extra bits DHCP can offer a client will be used in > the loader. Thus BOOTP is suffient. Applicable RFCs are in > /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp/work/dhcp-2.0/doc/ BOOTP is not necessarily sufficient. BOOTP does not allow truly dynamic configuration, or at least not with the ISC dhcpd. It at least requires a host and hardware declaration for each BOOTP client, even if you allow dynamic IP addresses to be assigned, while DHCP does not. In my case, I would need to use DHCP because of this limitation. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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