Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!leong From: leong@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (John Leong) Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: re: BOOTP daemon for BSD 4.x Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 17:38:03 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.MS.V3.10.leong.0.leong.190.0 Posted: Mon Oct 13 17:38:03 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Oct-86 23:27:52 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa I am real glad that Bill Croft have made the BootP client and server software available to the public domain. I think it is a very interesting package especially for those who has a lot of PC's around running the MIT PCIP. Since the IP addresses of those machines are associated with floppies which get duplicated regularly by people who don't really know what IP addresses are never mind about "CUSTOM NETDEV" and such ultiliites. The risk of having duplicated IP addresses and subnet address inconsistency due to "wandering" floppy can be very significant. BootP essentially allows one to have a better (not perfect) control to IP address allocation and usage. John Leong