Hello Everyone,
I am pretty new to the networking world. But as a sysadmin, I am
thoroughly appreciating pf and OpenBSD as a whole. I think I may have
fallen in love.
My question is about BOOTP. I've always heard it in the context of PXE
booting, but as I was configuring it in dhcpd.conf, I got that weird
tickling sensation that made me think there might be more to it. And
indeed the Wikipedia article[1] indicates that it at least /was/ used
for more and is largely, though not entirely, superseded-by/merged-into
DHCP.
I've read the man page for dhcpd.conf, and it seems to strongly
imply/assume that one would only use BOOTP support for PXE, but it isn't
entirely explicit on that point.
So my question is: will "allow/deny bootp;" in dhcpd.conf enable/disable
anything other than PXE support?
Thank you for your time.
---Alex
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol
