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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: PCS WITH DUPLICATE TCP ADDRESSES
- Message-ID: <tul2n10@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:51:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.000209.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <1992Dec19.135454.548@fallst> <1992Dec22.191907.23824@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Dec22.191907.23824@mmm.serc.3m.com>, ccg@tcdsp1.mmm.com ("Charles Ganzhorn") writes:
- > BOOTP is major bad idea. You have to configure your routers to pass the
- > silly stuff 'cuz you won't necessarily have a load host in all subnets.
- > This means you lose the usual isolation that IP provides you between
- > subnets (BOOTP uses a global IP broadcast).
- >
- > Also, if your BOOTP logs all requests, a station whose download doesn't
- > get satisfied typically requests every five seconds and ends up filling
- > up the logs on systems.
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- These complaints concern some implementations of bootp clients,
- servers, and forwarders, not of the protocol itself.
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- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
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