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- From: erick@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS and Bootp
- Message-ID: <Bx9IDx.5ss@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <Bx7pzE.6DL@willamette.edu> <1db96aINN4b4@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:29:56 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >Quoth dan@willamette.edu (Dan Revel) (in <Bx7pzE.6DL@willamette.edu>):
- >#I would like to be able to use BOOTP to provide boot info (ip address,
- >#etc.) to our PC-NFS clients. Right now they are RARPing, but I would
- >#like to be able to set up clients on a subnet that does not have a RARP
- >#server. Is this possible? Is it the 'right' approach?
- >
- >Our current thinking (*not* committed product plans, please note!) is
- >that we'll skip BOOTP and adopt DHCP, which is a much more complete
- >solution.
-
- I would suggest adopting widely supported standards before
- soon-to-be-ratified replacements for standards which may offer
- more but are not widely available. Sure, adopt DHCP, but please
- think of BOOTP first.
-
- Just remember (ooops, Sun guy, better not mention NeFS)...
- all the various transports and alternative mail and file
- exchange protocols which we have seen get RFCed and which
- never caught on despite their obvious superiority.
-
- I know I going to get a few flames from selfconcious OSIers
- who think I'm talking about them. Don't bother, this is
- honestly a post about IP based protocols.
-
-
- >.... Bear in mind
- >that DHCP is still not an RFC, though the client-server protocol seems
- >essentially stable.
-
- Erick
-
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- Erick Engelke WATTCP Architect
- erick@development.uwaterloo.ca TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI
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