[comp.sys.proteon] want to pass BOOTP broadcasts through gateway

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