* Chad C. Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> [2001.10.10 17:00:35-0500]:
> How did I find this information so easily???
>
> http://google.com/search?DHCP+FAQ
>
> LESSON: Google is your friend!!! ;-) Seriously.
me knows! please also read my other post, last night, i just screwed
up, started panicking because i needed this info, and fell back into
the arms of debian-user, which have never let me down!
> Conclusion: If you need fine grained control of remote booting
> mac address identified machines to load kernels or mount root
> filesystems, bootp was designed for it. Still, dhcp will work just
> fine in this capacity. If you're going to use dhcp to dynamically
> allocate any block of addresses on your network, you may as well use
> it to work in place of a bootp server as well.
so bootp is more fine-grained with respect to remote-boot aspects, but
other than that pretty much eclipsed by dhcp (which can do static IPs
too)?
--
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"imagine if every thursday your shoes exploded if you
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with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
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