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  1. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!recnews
  3. From: Bruce Pinsky <bpinsky@cisco.com>
  4. Subject: Re: RFC 951 and BOOTP
  5. Message-ID: <726290624.15542@news.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Sender: news
  7. Date: 5 Jan 93 16:39:22 -0800
  8. Approved: news
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  10. X-Note2: mail msgid was   <9301060039.AA21050@last-call.cisco.com>
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  12.  
  13. W. Smith writes:
  14.  
  15. ==>
  16. ==>FC 951 states that routers can be configured to forward BOOTP
  17. ==>requests. How does cisco handle such requests? Are the packets
  18. ==>forwarded as-is or are they altered in some way? Does the 
  19. ==>router need any specific parameters set or is it a default
  20. ==>process in the router software itself? I'm trying to determine
  21. ==>how interoperable cisco is with other router vendors.
  22. ==>
  23.  
  24. cisco routers do not forward bootp broadcasts by default.  To forward bootp
  25. (and several other UDP broadcast-based protocols), the router has a command
  26. call ip forward-protocol udp.  This allows bootp to traverse the router.
  27.  
  28. Hope this helps...
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