mark@badger.dosli.govt.nz (Mark Wright) (11/20/90)
Thanks to everyone who responded to this request. The concensus was that I should use BOOTP, although in message <682@dlogics.COM>, brown@dlogics.COM (Steve Brown) suggested a different approach. Russell Mosemann <mosemann@hoss.unl.edu> said: RM> With BOOTP, every hardware address is assigned a specific IP RM> number. When NCSA Telnet (or something else that knows how to do RM> a BOOTP) starts up, it sends a BOOTP "who am I?". The hardware RM> address of the packet is looked up in the table, and the IP RM> address, addresses of domain name servers, and other information RM> is sent back to the requesting machine. BOOTP does not let you use a pool, although it has been suggested that the source should not be hard to modify. The trick is to detect when the PC has gone down, so the IP number can be reassigned. Ultrix 4.0 comes with BOOTP. Brian.Ellis@vuw.ac.nz commented: BE> bootp was supplied with my distribution of Ultrix 4.0. Try reading BE> bootpd(8). Not that you really want to use the bootp supplied with Ultrix BE> 4.0 because it's based on an old rfc. Bootp has evolved a little, and you BE> can now pass around information like gateway, broadcast and name server BE> addresses, as well as each machines IP address and boot files. BOOTP is in the public domain, try lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu. Thanks to ... Brian Ellis ellis@rata.vuw.ac.nz Joep Brand rcjoep@urc.tue.nl Russell Mosemann mosemann@hoss.unl.edu Havard Eidnes he@spurv.runit.sintef.no Ralf Heydtmann rah@aicmuc.aic.de Steve Brown brown@dlogics.COM -- Mark Wright. Dept. of Survey and Land Information,NZ. email: mark@dosli.govt.nz phone: 64 4 710-380 ext 8688