Subject: Re: Terminal servers...
To: Adam Glass <glass@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/28/1995 11:04:54
Adam Glass says:
> > The only thing not shipped that might be needed for some situations is
> > support for MS's new DHCP protocol. While I haven't looked into it I'm
> > sure whatever tools are available to support that will compile nicely
> > on netbsd, and in any case the Annex won't need that.
> 
> DHCP is not a MS protocol.  It was designed by some IETF working group
> and is documented in an RFC or two.

At this point, DHCP is in the internet draft stage. Its very very
close in design and formats to bootp, so it shouldn't be that hard to
turn a bootpd into a dhcpd.

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