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From: seiffert@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Dynamically assigning IP numbers on Ethernet?
Message-ID: <1991May29.224518.23221@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 23:54:37 GMT
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We are using a PC to do it. We have an XT with clarkson university's LPD
software. This is usually used for serving printing for UNIX machines or
such. However, it has a BootP server built into it. MacTCP can query ther
BootP server for IP#, gateway# and nameserver information. 

You do have to setup a bootp table that contains the ethernet # of each
machine and then assigns an IP# to that ethernet #. Works fine for us.

Let me know if you would like some more information.

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