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hey all… quick question for those in the know… i’m doing a little work at a place that is using BootP for a bunch of OS9-macintoshes. i think it is only so they can manage IPs based on MAC address (which you can do with DHCP reservations). i do not yet know why they want machines holding fixed addresses.
is there any great reason why i’d want to stick with BootP? is there any great argument i can use to convince those in charge to migrate over to DHCP?
thanks
MacTroll wrote:
How do you know they are actually using bootp? Setting network to bootp should, IIRC, still pick up DHCP lease for the client.
All the old OS9 macintoshes are set to “bootp” and there is supposedly someone managing a bootp server to assign the addresses. i do not yet know what would happen if i plopped a machine down using DHCP (like, i do not know yet why they need static IPs), or if I just stole an address…
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