Bruce_Jolliffe@MTSG.UBC.CA (04/05/89)
We have implemented SLIP as per RFC 1055 in our serial network.
The RFC does not specify how dial-in hosts are to get their IP
addresses. What is the current concensus on how this should be
done?
We would like to use a standard mechanism to do this rather than
have to modify each package so that it uses dial-up SLIP
transparently. Currently when you use off the shelf SLIP packages
with dial-up SLIP you have to fiddle a bit to tell the package
what your dynamic IP address is.
Both RARP and BOOTP offer mechanisms for returning IP addresses.
We were considering using the BOOTP protocol as described in RFCs
951 and 1084 to return the IP address. Many of the fields that
can be used to return other information would be left as null.
We would put the handling of the BOOTP protocol packets in our
communications processors so that the IP address resolution could
be done at the the point where the connection to the network was
made.
-- Bruce Jolliffe
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