* Chad C. Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.10 17:00:35-0500]: > How did I find this information so easily??? > > http://google.com/search?DHCP+FAQ > > LESSON: Google is your friend!!! ;-) Seriously.
me knows! please also read my other post, last night, i just screwed up, started panicking because i needed this info, and fell back into the arms of debian-user, which have never let me down! > Conclusion: If you need fine grained control of remote booting > mac address identified machines to load kernels or mount root > filesystems, bootp was designed for it. Still, dhcp will work just > fine in this capacity. If you're going to use dhcp to dynamically > allocate any block of addresses on your network, you may as well use > it to work in place of a bootp server as well. so bootp is more fine-grained with respect to remote-boot aspects, but other than that pretty much eclipsed by dhcp (which can do static IPs too)? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "imagine if every thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. this happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- jeff raskin
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