From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 15:43:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA09398 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts11-226.indigo.ie [194.125.133.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09392 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA07786; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:05:34 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:57:50 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Can FBSD be config'd via BOOTP? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Doug White wrote: > Hm. I thought there was a bootp client, but I guess not. It comes with a > server though. > > Why would you want to bootp a unix box? FreeBSD and unix in general > doesn't sit well with dynamic configuration. They are designed for static > addresses with static names. For the same reason that I want to configure a Windows PC using BOOTP -- it centralises my administration of the network hosts. I think Unix boxes are designed for static addresses only when they're acting as servers. The ones I want to BOOTP will be clients. But, even so, I think only the hostname needs to be static on a server; client software shouldn't be using IP addresses. Also, c.f. Sun's bootparamd. Mike ---