Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I suppose most ISPs would be stumped if asked whether they had real
>> BOOTP.
SH> What is tcpinfo?
A small program that comes with the WATTCP package.
It prints out your TCP/IP info (hence the name :))
It looks like this:
=== Begin file ===
Reading Waterloo TCP configuration file.
Ethernet Address : 00:00:F8:1E:D5:C2
IP Address : 195.34.151.73
Network Mask : 255.255.255.0
Gateways : GATEWAY'S IP SUBNET SUBNET MASK
: 195.34.151.1 DEFAULT
Host name : ricsi.priv.at
Domain name : priv.at
Cookieserver : NONE DEFINED
Nameservers : 195.34.133.10
: 128.130.2.3
: 131.130.1.11
: 195.34.133.11
Default Timeout : 10 seconds
Max Seg Size MSS : 926 bytes
tcp_Socket size : 4268 bytes
udp_Socket size : 2136 bytes
Version info : Watt-32 - (2.0.x) GNU C/C++ & djgpp2. Aug 19 1999
Capabilities : bsdsock/bootp/dhcp/rarp/lang/frag/stat/bsdfatal/bsdfortify
=== End file ===
SH> Also, please explain what is meant by "real BOOTP", as opposed to
SH> psuedo BOOTP or simulated BOOTP, or whatever other "non-real" kinds as
SH> may exist.
I can only guess ...
DHCP is the successor of BOOTP.
DHCP standard states, that every DHCP server, should understand, and
process BOOTP requests ...
So there are REAL BOOTP servers, and DHCP servers, which also do BOOTP.
SH> I confess that I am very lacking in knowledge as to how BOOTP is
SH> supposed to work.
You send a broadcast packet (every computer on the LAN processes that), if
a BOOTP server receives such a request, it will answer it ...
that's it ...
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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