Ummm... I'm not very much convinced about that. In my installation, dnsmasq provides both, BOOTP _and_ DHCP. I can't see any reason _not_ to provide dynamic adresses to BOOTP hosts. The client will accept any address provided by the server. So where's the problem?
It's correct that dnsmasq provides both BOOTP and DHCP. I guess I never thought about why BOOTP can't do dynamic addresses before - no BOOTP server I know about does. How about this: BOOTP has no notion of lease times and lease renewal or expiry, so any address allocated by BOOTP would have to have an infinite lease and be lost for ever from the pool of allocatable addresses. There's therefore a big danger that you would eventually run out of dynamically allocatable addresses.
Cheers, Simon.
