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Re: bootp vs. dhcp



* martin f krafft (madduck@madduck.net) [011010 21:43]:
> 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)?

Can't give a complete answer, but yes, dhcp can give the same IP address
to a given MAC address each time. (sometimes referred to as a 'sticky'
address, as 'static' is often used as "not dhcp").

That's easy to set up; you just tell it like

host gobo {
	hardware ethernet  00:01:03:33:37:37;
	fixed-address gobo.internal;
}

where gobo.internal resolves to an IP address, or replace that with an
actual IP address.

good times,

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