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- From: Hendrik.Klompmaker@beheer.zod.wau.nl (Hendrik Klompmaker)
- Subject: Re: RARP support for tcp/ip lanman from microsoft
- Message-ID: <Hendrik.Klompmaker.32.726184391@beheer.zod.wau.nl>
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- Organization: Wageningen Agricultural University
- References: <MAILQUEUE-101.921223083536.1184@celio.uvm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:53:11 GMT
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- In article <MAILQUEUE-101.921223083536.1184@celio.uvm.edu> ALB@celio.uvm.edu (Allan Bazinet) writes:
- >From: ALB@celio.uvm.edu (Allan Bazinet)
- >Subject: Re: RARP support for tcp/ip lanman from microsoft
- >Date: 23 Dec 92 13:35:36 GMT
- >> >Don, RARP is not as well designed as BOOTP. I'd look for a BOOTP solution
- >> >before RARP.
- >
- >> If you do any subnetting your in trouble with BOOTP as well. You can't do
- >> BOOTP over Cisco's (RARP doesn't either) because the client on the other
- >> side of it will get the hardware address of the cisco instead of it's own.
- >
- >Doing BOOTP here for ~600 client machines from an RS/6000 server.
- >Crossing 2 Cisco AGS+ routers in the process doesn't pose a problem.
- >One must ensure to set the default ip-helper address for the Ciscos
- >to the address of the server, or a subnet broadcast (we have a few
- >servers on the same subnet) in our case.
- >
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------
- > Allan L. Bazinet, Computer Operations, University of Vermont
- > alb@celio.uvm.edu alb@uvmadmin.uvm.edu (802)656-8785
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------
- I was wrong. Indeed the ip-helper address for the Ciscos does solve the
- problem. I should have RTFM before replying.
-
- Sorry.
-
- Bye
- Hendrik
-
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