this task more effectively. But DHCP will not allow a device which
is not the endpoint ( or the DHCP server ) to discover the network which contains
an IP address and the first hop gateway(s) which service that network.
Ed Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:56 PM -0500 Ed Warnicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have published a draft defining a method for using DNS given
an IP address to resolve the subnet that contains that IP address,
the netmask of that network, and the gateway(s) on that network.
I'm curious to know why one would use this instead of DHCP, which is also
commonly provided in routers.
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