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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,
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Subject: Re: Odd idea
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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.


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