On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:17:55AM +1100, Stephen Welker wrote:
> --On Wednesday, 10 January 2001 11:38 PM Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 
> > hi
> >
> > given that we have shipped dhcpd for a release (or two), is it worth
> > continuing to ship bootpd (and its associated programs)? we don't even
> > provide startup scripts for bootpd.
> >
> > thoughts/comments?
> 
> Just a simple thoought. Apple Computer Inc.
> 
> I believe that all Open Firmware Macs (1996+) support Net Booting (aka 
> bootp) as Apple calls it.
> 
> It is used to download a very large "boot image" (actually most of the 
> MacOS) then attaches itself to an AppleShareIP server. Each of these boot 
> images are customised for each client (standard bootp?).
> 
> Just another thing that NetBSD can do for the world.
> 
> May be bootp just needs freshening up?

ISC dhcpd (the one in our tree) can talk bootp to clients; I've been doing
that for a couple of years to some *very* old bootp clients (which aren't
dhcpd aware).

Still, I've taken people's point about bootp at least potentially
being a bit more stable than dhcp at the moment, and I'll leave it
alone.

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