From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 20:15:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02361 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (arnie.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.242.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02343 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 20:15:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from state.systems.sa.gov.au by arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V4.3-7 #13538) id <01I48BCWAXM8007U7J@arnie.systems.sa.gov.au>; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:44:04 +1030 Received: from dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au) by state.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V5.0-4 #13538) id <01I48BCLA7OW0073Q8@state.systems.sa.gov.au>; Thu, 02 May 1996 12:43:49 +0930 Received: from jolt.systems.sa.gov.au (jolt.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.237.8]) by dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA16005; Thu, 02 May 1996 12:47:11 +0930 Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 12:45:56 +0930 From: Garth Kidd Subject: Re: IP addresses In-reply-to: Michael Smith <"Re: IP addresses"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (May 2, 11:01) To: Michael Smith Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Message-id: <960502124600.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0 (4.0.0 Aug 21 1995) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199605020131.LAA26804@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On May 2, 11:01, Michael Smith wrote: >> The BOOTP server that comes with LAN WorkGroup (AFAIK, the only BOOTP >> server that will run on a Novell Netware fileserver) will create new >> entries in its tables automatically if it senses a new machine on a >> segment it serves and has some spare address space to assign. > > Ah. So Novell have implemented DHCP over BOOTP. *chuckle*. Not quite -- all the boxes get is their IP address and that of the nearest router. The only DHCPism is the dynamic creation of mappings. -- garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Network Services Branch +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | Southern Systems | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA