With BOOTP an administrator would say basically : 01:01:01:01:01:01:01:01 192.168.0.1 01:01:01:01:01:01:01:02 192.168.0.2
Etc. You tie a MAC to an IP. If the Bootp server doesn't recognize the MAC, you don't get an address. It's the same as statically setting all your IP addresses inside DHCP, and then disallowing DHCP to respond to foreign NICs. BOOTP was easier than manually setting things up, but it didn't clean out old entries, and you had to associate every new machine with an IP address in the config table before it would work. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Bruseker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:15 PM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) MAC s > > > There's no advantage with DHCP. There was an advantage before DHCP when > > people used BOOTP though. > > > I thought with DHCP, you address the MAC with a given IP address, to make > sure a certain computer would always get the same IP (sort of a dynamically > static sort of thing), but giving you the advange of having all the rest of > the info that travels with DHCP (like name server lists and such) being > controlled centrally. That's the one use I've ever heard of for them. > > > I feel old. > > > We won't tell. ;-) > > > Kev. > > > Ian > > > >
