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From: rah@guug.guug.de (Ralf Heydtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: IP address assignment at boot time - for PCs
Message-ID: <505@guug.guug.de>
Date: 17 Nov 90 15:15:04 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.005606.4679@dosli.govt.nz>
Organization: GUUG e.V., Munich, W. Germany
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In article <1990Nov16.005606.4679@dosli.govt.nz> mark@badger.dosli.govt.nz (Mark Wright) writes:
>...
>I want the PCs to get their IP address from a server when they boot. I would
>like the addresses to be assigned by the server as they are needed - e.g. a PC
>may not always get the same IP address, rather it is allocated from a "pool"
>of addresses upon request.
>...
>What are the drawbacks of this approach? We have more PCs then I would like to
>configure RARP to handle, so I think it IS preferable. 

Mark-
managing a pool of ip-addresses seems to bee difficult. Your pool-manager
must notice the end of a PC's telnet session to mark the address available
again. 
But you can modify the bootpd sources to assign pool-addresses. This shouldn't
be too difficult. And NCSA telnet works fine with bootp.

-Ralf

Ralf Heydtmann					AIC Software GmbH
rah@aicmuc.aic.de