I want to set up a lab of machines here at college. I would like these machines to not know their own IP address when they're booting, but have it assigned to them by another machine based on their ethernet addresses. bootp and dhcp are two systems I've heard of that apparently can be used for this kind of thing, but know nothing else about. What's the difference between them? All these machines have static IP addresses assigned to them.
What do I have to do to set up a Debian (Hamm) box to have it's IP address assigned in this way? thanks etc. vincent murphy
