From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 18:30:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA19056 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19050 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 18:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA26804; Thu, 2 May 1996 11:01:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605020131.LAA26804@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IP addresses To: garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (Garth Kidd) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 11:01:31 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au In-Reply-To: <960502094423.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> from "Garth Kidd" at May 2, 96 09:43:36 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garth Kidd stands accused of saying: > > From: Michael Smith > > > > If you haven't had an address assigned to the machine, then it doesn't > > have one. IP addresses are not a function of the machine's hardware. > > The BOOTP server that comes with LAN WorkGroup (AFAIK, the only BOOTP > server that will run on a Novell Netware fileserver) will create new > entries in its tables automatically if it senses a new machine on a segment > it serves and has some spare address space to assign. Ah. So Novell have implemented DHCP over BOOTP. *chuckle*. They never seem to do things the 'easy' way, do they? > garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[