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- From: paul@atlas.abccomp.oz.au (Paul Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: RARP/BOOTP server for small IPnumber pool wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.052715.1887@atlas.abccomp.oz.au>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 05:27:15 GMT
- Organization: TurboSoft Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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- One or two have been talked about a while ago, but I didn't write them down.
- Now a client needs exactly what I remember reading about!
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- I need a BOOTP or RARP server that can dole out IP numbers from a small pool
- for a much larger collection of potential hosts (PCs), of which only a
- small fraction will be using TCP/IP connections at any one time. When all
- available IP numbers have been allocated, subsequent requests are refused.
- I would guess that periodic PINGs are also required to determine when a host
- has finished with its IP number.
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- Does anybody have a pointer to such a package/program for any platform?
- Thanks.
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