So DHCP is backward compatable with Bootp, right? I'll test, of course, but we have some older diskless workstations that we are serving addresses to. Thanks!
Ragnar Wisløff wrote: > > Sitat Janyne Kizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Was bootp depreciated in favor of dhcp? I know that it has not > > shipped > > since about RH6 but I was curious. We have some very old systems > > using > > bootp and we could just copy the bootptab over when we drop in new > > systems if we stayed with that but if bootp has, in fact, been > > depreciated (as i suspect it has) then maybe that's not such a good > > idea. Just trying to weigh our options. Thanks! > > The main benefit from dhcp was to assign ip's dynamically from a range, > bootp was a one-to-one MAC to ip system, I think. You should be able to > get dhcp to do all bootp could. On modern RHL systems you'll have to > compile and install bootp from source. The rpms (last one from 5.1) want > inetd. > > -- > Mvh Ragnar Wisløff > ------------------ > life is a reach. then you gybe. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
