I don't know if this will help, but on my home network I have entries
similar to the following in my dhcpd.conf file so that my computers always
have the same ip:
host rigel {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed-address 192.168.1.1;
}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Janyne Kizer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: bootp question
>
>
> 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.
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