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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Troubles with BOOTP from FTP
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Date: 11 Apr 91 16:13:39 GMT
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    I have troubles using the ethernet generic version of BOOTP from FTP Inc.

Let our tech support people know what version of PC/TCP you have; in one
release we didn't catch a buggy bootp client until we'd shipped a few.

    Although there are 6 BOOTP Servers responding (definitely right
    responding), my PC cant't get its IP address.

If there are six servers, and sometimes it works, it could simply be that
they are all responding at once, and the PC misses the answer.  What sort
of LAN monitoring tools do you have available?

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