23 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-smallRe: Odd idea| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Mike Smith | Sep 2, 1999 11:41 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 2, 1999 11:44 pm | |
| Skip Hansen | Sep 3, 1999 8:10 am | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 3, 1999 10:10 am | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 12:08 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 12:35 pm | |
| John Ioannidis | Sep 3, 1999 12:35 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 3, 1999 12:41 pm | |
| Skip Hansen | Sep 3, 1999 1:38 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 2:16 pm | |
| Broderick Wood | Sep 3, 1999 2:59 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 3, 1999 3:02 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 3:39 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 3:44 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 4:15 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 4:19 pm | |
| Jac Backus | Sep 4, 1999 12:36 pm | |
| Kent Berggren | Sep 4, 1999 1:48 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 4, 1999 7:13 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 4, 1999 7:13 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 4, 1999 10:20 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 4, 1999 11:18 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 5, 1999 12:01 am |
| Subject: | Re: Odd idea | |
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| From: | Broderick Wood (bwo...@KingsU.ab.ca) | |
| Date: | Sep 3, 1999 2:59:04 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-small | |
Will/could that support configuration via DHCP?
Yes; initially it will do only bootp, but DHCP is assumed to be coming.
IMHpersonalO, bootp is suffient.
From RFC 2131: o DHCP must provide service to existing BOOTP clients. ... From the client's point of view, DHCP is an extension of the BOOTP mechanism. This behavior allows existing BOOTP clients to interoperate with DHCP servers without requiring any change to the clients' initialization software. RFC 1542 [2] details the interactions between BOOTP and DHCP clients and servers [9]. ... There are two primary differences between DHCP and BOOTP. First, DHCP defines mechanisms through which clients can be assigned a network address for a finite lease, allowing for serial reassignment of network addresses to different clients. Second, DHCP provides the mechanism for a client to acquire all of the IP configuration parameters that it needs in order to operate.
I do not believe the extra bits DHCP can offer a client will be used in the loader. Thus BOOTP is suffient. Applicable RFCs are in /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp/work/dhcp-2.0/doc/
Except that a site can configure to NOT allow BootP clients with a DHCP server. I am using this option using ISC-DHCP for FreeBSD so that I have more control over the leases and such for my student network...
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