From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 19:15:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA25988 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:15:06 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA25968 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:14:58 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA23812; Mon, 16 Jan 95 13:34:10 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501162034.AA23812@cs.weber.edu> Subject: DHCP and diskless support To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 13:34:09 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm on the Samba mailing list, and I just saw this very interesting bootp patch: > To: samba@cscgpo.anu.edu.au > Subject: DHCP > Message-ID: <199501152331.KAA06622@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au> > > DHCP (could it be Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?) is a way for > large groups of WfWg and NT boxes to get their net setup from a > central location. > > Jeanette Pauline Middelink has > written a patch to bootp which allows a unix box to be a DHCP server. > > I haven't tried the patch, but I've put an e-mail from him containing > the patch on nimbus.anu.edu.au in pub/tridge/samba/contributed/DHCP.patch > > It contains some instructions. > > Andrew This is Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Or for anyone who hacks this as a client in the diskless code after adding the bootp patch, it's a way to dynamically assign IP addresses for a lab full of *BSD boxes. Anyone up for committing the patch to bootp (minus the Makefile stuff)? Someone probably needs to contact the author to ensure copyright OK. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.