On Tuesday 12 November 2002 6:40 am, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with what BOOTP is.
> All I know is that it allows a computer to get an IP address and some
> basic network information.
in my understanding, bootp is mostly usefull for giving a machine an ip 
address based on its mac address so it can download a tftp image to boot 
from. Guess it could prob be used instead of dhcp for addressing but all the 
'leases' would have to be configured manually in a table i think.

hugh


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