> >Sounds like Win2K DHCP isn't up to much... Which is rather sad considering
> >DHCP is a Microsoft hack in the first place.
>
> Well no, M$ has a lot to answer for but you can't blame DHCP on them,
> it's an Internet standard. Their implementation may be deficient, if
> that's what you mean.
I believe that Mark is right in saying that Microsoft originated the
extensions to bootp and implemented leases in their clients and servers
to cope when IP addresses first started to be in short supply - hence
the "D" for "Dynamic". Fortunately, the protocol was reasonably well
designed, backwards compatible with bootp and adopted as an RFC - unlike
other "standards" (e.g. SMB) which MS feel free to break at will.
> Etherboot has a mechanism for ignoring DHCP servers you don't want.
More accurately, Etherboot correctly uses the appropriate DHCP mechanism
(VCI) for deciding which servers it wants. To be fair to Microsoft,
their clients seem to use it, which is the important thing. I can't
comment on the server.
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