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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: SLIP and bootp
- Message-ID: <921211191234.24a001d0@TGV.COM>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:12:34 PST
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- > Is there any reason BootP requests wouldn't be passed through a slip line? We
- > have a PC acting as a router on the end of the slip line, and are having a hard
- > time determining whether bootp won't work because the routing software (on the
- > PC) isn't passing it through or whether the SLIP line won't take them for some
- > reason.
-
- The PC isn't, and shouldn't pass IP broadcast packets through. If
- the booting machine were to already know its IP address and the IP address
- of the BootP server, it could presumably direct the packet through the
- gateway to the server and use the protocol to discover other information
- about its environment, but chances are that a machine that already knows
- all of this has enough state to not need BootP.
-
- Ken
-