Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 12:45:56 +0930 From: Garth Kidd <garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP addresses Message-ID: <960502124600.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> In-Reply-To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <"Re: IP addresses"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (May 2, 11:01) References: <199605020131.LAA26804@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On May 2, 11:01, Michael Smith wrote:
>> 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*.
Not quite -- all the boxes get is their IP address and that of the nearest
router. The only DHCPism is the dynamic creation of mappings.
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