Re: bootp, dhcp, etc

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Aaron Van Couwenberghe <avancouw@calpoly.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:25:04AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > I'm curious what our bootp/dhcp support strategy is...
> > > 
> > > There seems to be a number of competeing pacakges, such as pump,
> > > dhcp_client, etc.  I'm not sure which we should pick.  
> > > 
> > > Are there any bootp/dhcp experts here?  Should I cry out for some on
> > > Debian-devel?
> > 
> > dhcp-client would be a great one to use on the boot-floppies, as it supports
> > both bootp and dhcp. It also works pretty much automatically in both cases.
> > However, it's over 100 kbytes, so it's ruled out unless someone can strip
> > it way down.

Have no experience with dhcp at all.  I will install it at home to see how it
works on my local net (1 pc + 4 old sparc).  Is it difficult to configure it ?
What should I know to setup a server on my PC/debian box ?

Regards.

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