almquist@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU ("Philip Almquist") (05/27/90)
Guy, A Proteon router doesn't contain a BOOTP forwarding agent, but if you have a convenient host on that cable then that's not a serious problem: just run a BOOTP forwarding agent on the host. Once the BOOTP packet has been massaged by the BOOTP forwarding agent, it is a completely standard IP datagram that can be forwarded by any IP router, Proteon or otherwise. See section 8 of RFC951 for details. I'm not aware of any BOOTP forwarding agent implementations for hosts, but there probably is one somewhere. If not, one should be fairly trivial to write. Philip