Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:59:26 -0600 From: "Broderick Wood" <bwood@KingsU.ab.ca> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <199909032159.PAA69282@mark.kingsu.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <19990903141644.J49271@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <199909031908.MAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > 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: > o DHCP must provide service to existing BOOTP clients. > ... > From the client's point of view, DHCP is an extension of the BOOTP > mechanism. This behavior allows existing BOOTP clients to > interoperate with DHCP servers without requiring any change to the > clients' initialization software. RFC 1542 [2] details the > interactions between BOOTP and DHCP clients and servers [9]. > ... > There are two primary differences between DHCP and BOOTP. First, > DHCP defines mechanisms through which clients can be assigned a > network address for a finite lease, allowing for serial > reassignment of network addresses to different clients. Second, > DHCP provides the mechanism for a client to acquire all of the IP > configuration parameters that it needs in order to operate. > > > 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/ Except that a site can configure to NOT allow BootP clients with a DHCP server. I am using this option using ISC-DHCP for FreeBSD so that I have more control over the leases and such for my student network... --------------------------- -BMW- Don't just stand there! Pray something! (bwood@kingsu.ab.ca) Broderick Wood, Director of Information Technology Services The King's University College 9125 - 50 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2H3 (780) 465-8315 (780) 465-3534 (FAX) ><> <>< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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