ehrlich@psuvax1.BITNET (10/01/86)
I would appreciate hearing from any who has or knows of a daemon
for BSD 4.x that implements the BOOTP protocol.
Thanks in advance.
--Daniel Ehrlich
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===============================================================================croft@safe.stanford.edu (Bill Croft) (10/06/86)
Client and server implementations of BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol, RFC 951) are available via anonymous ftp from host safe.stanford.edu, in the files: pub/bootp.client.shar pub/bootp.server.shar Both implementations are in C, the server code for 4.2 BSD, the client code resides in PROM in our campus gateways/tips (multibus 68000 systems). The client autoconfigures for a number of different ethernet board manufacturers (3COM, Interlan, ...). The BOOTP protocol is defined such that clients can boot themselves even when: (1) the client is on an ether segment without a boot server host. (2) the client doesnt yet know its own IP address. --Bill Croft, Stanford Univ. ------- End of Forwarded Message
leong@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (John Leong) (10/14/86)
I am real glad that Bill Croft have made the BootP client and server software available to the public domain. I think it is a very interesting package especially for those who has a lot of PC's around running the MIT PCIP. Since the IP addresses of those machines are associated with floppies which get duplicated regularly by people who don't really know what IP addresses are never mind about "CUSTOM NETDEV" and such ultiliites. The risk of having duplicated IP addresses and subnet address inconsistency due to "wandering" floppy can be very significant. BootP essentially allows one to have a better (not perfect) control to IP address allocation and usage. John Leong