Said Chien-Yu Chen on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:55:14AM -0600, > I have a general bootp/dhcp question... > > I know dhcp is a superset of bootp...but if the client sent out a dhcp > request, can a bootp server reply (or even sees the request)?
Yes. Bootp can do basic stuff like IP assignment, even for a DHCP client. Bootp doesn't have all the new features of DHCP, like IP leases and proxy servers, etc. -- fingerprint: 740F B8D9 DF20 362C F5BC CDE6 6923 5A48 7657 541F lynx -source http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg | gpg --import _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux