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From: dab@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: BOOTP vendor support
Message-ID: <8808051637.AA07573@PTT.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 5 Aug 88 16:37:56 GMT
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Not exactly a vendor, but the MIT uVAX C-Gateway also uses bootp, not only
to find out its IP address but also to invoke TFTP to boot the gateway
code.  The gateway code also has the ability to forward bootp requests
through to appropriate bootp servers if necessary.  With the one exception
that the boot code had to be specific to a subnet (because the 4.2 servers
would only recognize broadcast addreses of the form net.subnet.0) bootp
has worked very well.

Also, CMU has been using bootp to auto-configure IBM PC's for quite a while
using the bootp vendor field to set the various other things the PC's need
to know.  [Now for the vendor support part] We'll be including a bootp
client for configuring PC's using the CMU style vendor field (actually
either CMU style or RFC-1048) with our next release.

						David Bridgham
						FTP Software