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From: almquist@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU ("Philip Almquist")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: want to pass BOOTP broadcasts through gateway
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Date: 27 May 90 15:51:37 GMT
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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