droms@HYDRA.BUCKNELL.EDU (Ralph E. Droms) (07/03/90)
In connection with the work of the IETF Dynamic Host Confguration
working group, I'd like to conduct a small survey by asking the
following two questions:
1) Which router vendors implement BOOTP? Which implementations would
break if the BOOTP protocol were enhanced by, say, a new set of BOOTP
operations? Which implementations provide the forwarding function in
which broadcast BOOTP requests are retransmitted and the response(s)
returned by the router?
2) Which implementations of TCP/IP (either host or router or whatever)
would break if a new address class were introduced? Which would break
if network address 0 were used as a special purpose address; e.g., if
network address 0 were used for packets destined for hosts on the same
subnet and packets with destination network address 0 were
specifically not forwarded by routers?
Please reply directly to me...
- Ralph Droms Computer Science Department
droms@bucknell.edu 323 Dana Engineering
Bucknell University
(717) 524-1145 Lewisburg, PA 17837