A DHCP server is not required to handle BOOTP clients. The popular ISC
version does, but others may not.
Both protocols use the same ports: bootps - 67 and bootpc - 68. So you
can not run both services on the same system without having one binary
that handles both styles of requests.
Per Lundberg wrote:
>
> >>>>> "CP" == Christoph Plattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> CP> As DHCP is compatible downwards
>
> This is not completely true. A DHCP server can serve DHCP clients
> only, if you are using a range of IP addresses. If you want it to
> serve bootp clients too, you must have static entries for each
> machine.
>
> I don't know how it'll be if your using a DHCP client on a bootp
> server, but I guess it should work. Maybe this was what you meant.
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