Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!wdw
From: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Dynamic IP address assignment
Message-ID: <1378@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 18:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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At our site, we have a number of PC's attached to an Ethernet and
this number will no doubt continue to grow. At the moment each PC picks
up it's IP address from a RARP daemon on a UNIX host (Sun-4/280 SUN-OS
4.0).  It seems to me a shame to dedicate an IP address to each PC when
at any given time only a fraction of the PC's would be in use at the
same time.

Does anyone know of an RARP implementation that dynamically assigns
IP addresses from a pool? Obviously this would be appropriate only for
machines such as PC's in a public location where the current user may
care less what his IP address is.
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