Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> So, how many of you know how dhcp came in to being? Post your answers
> here, this can be an interesting discussion.
>
> For the uninitiated, dhcp - dynamic host configuration protocol - is what
> assigns IP addresses to machines when they come up on a network. It is
> needed because the number of available IPs is limited and far less than
> the number of machines in existence.
Here's a list of related RFCs:
1533 DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions. S. Alexander, R. Droms.
October 1993. (Format: TXT=50919 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1497,
RFC1395,
RFC1084, RFC1048) (Obsoleted by RFC2132) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
1534 Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP. R. Droms. October 1993.
(Format: TXT=6966 bytes) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
2132 DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions. S. Alexander, R. Droms.
March 1997. (Format: TXT=63670 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1533) (Status:
DRAFT STANDARD)
2241 DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services. D. Provan. November
1997. (Format: TXT=8419 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2322 Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp. K. van den Hout, A. Koopal,
R. van Mook. April 1998. (Format: TXT=12665 bytes) (Status:
INFORMATIONAL)
2485 DHCP Option for The Open Group's User Authentication Protocol. S.
Drach. January 1999. (Format: TXT=7205 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
2489 Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options. R. Droms. January 1999.
(Format: TXT=10484 bytes) (Also BCP0029) (Status: BEST CURRENT
PRACTICE)
2563 DHCP Option to Disable Stateless Auto-Configuration in IPv4
Clients. R. Troll. May 1999. (Format: TXT=17838 bytes) (Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD)
2610 DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol. C. Perkins, E.
Guttman. June 1999. (Format: TXT=10859 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
STANDARD)
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