Now that other Arachnids has tied up the BOOTP package with a pretty bow,
I figured it was time to throw a monkey wrench into the works. };>
When is a 'true BOOTP' not BOOTP?
When it is DCHP.
But not to panic. DCHP standard says it must be backwards compatible
with BOOTP. So if you are on a more modern system that does not give
you a static IP you can configure for, BOOTP can and *will* still obtain
all the information you need to stay connected.
When I was certain I had static IP [even my ISP now unofficially admits
this, although they swore up and down IP would be dynamically assigned
... because now the webpage states part of the cable modem packages is
'a single IP'] I switched to using LANTCP because it doesn't poll the
server with every move like BOOTP does.
Setting up for static IP didn't make much speed difference for *me*
because of the fiberoptic LAN/WAN into my ISP. But if I were on a
slower link-up with a slower system, it would speed things up
measurably. I won't go into details unless/until someone needs to know
how to figure out if they have static IP connection to their access LAN.
l.d.
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