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?
[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] How do you know they are actually using bootp? Setting network to bootp should, IIRC, still pick up DHCP lease for the client.[/QUOTE]
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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