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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: bootp
- Keywords: bootp, RFC951, RFC1084
- Message-ID: <vch0l7g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:56:41 GMT
- References: <2515@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 23
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- In article <2515@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>, philip@server.uwindsor.ca (Philip Smith) writes:
- > According to the bootp(1m) man page SGI's version of BOOTP supports RFC951.
- > Does anyone know when the plan to upgrade to RFC1084? I have an application
- > that needs this new version of BOOTP.
-
-
- I think it does RFC-1048 as well as RFC-1084. But that probably
- doesn't help you much, since those are just schemes for registering
- vendor extensions of RFC-951, and you presumably want to add your
- own extensions.
-
- It might be effective to grab bootp source from Stanford (?) and
- port it to do what you want.
-
-
- I've been arguing that SGI should release the source to our version of
- bootp, if only to show how bootp-forwarding can be done (and how we've
- done it for 5 or 6 years). So far, no one seems enthused, and the
- death of CSRG has made the question "to whom would we release it?" hard
- to answer. (Please, no GNU-copyleft speeches.)
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-