Limitations and Restrictions

• The DHCP server must be the NIS master if your site uses NIS for hostname, IP address, or network hardware address validation and mapping. Note that NIS is an optional software product, and not all systems and networks use it.

• If your site uses DNS to maintain the hosts map, you need an external mechanism (manual or automated) to update the DNS map from DHCP. This limitation should be lifted in the next release.

• The server cannot respond simultaneously to both DHCP and bootp clients requests, although it can act as the bootp server for normal bootp requests.