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- From: jbvb@vax.ftp.com (James B. VanBokkelen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: PCS WITH DUPLICATE TCP ADDRESSES
- Keywords: bootp
- Message-ID: <921228123908@cream.ftp.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:39:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.000209.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <1992Dec19.135454.548@fallst> <1992Dec20.094107.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <1992Dec22.191907.23824@mmm.serc.3m.com>
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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).
-
- Depends on your perspective. Setting up IP Routers to forward BOOTP packets
- may well be easier than maintaining an RARP server on every LAN cable. Doing
- all IP address configuration on a small set of servers may be easier than
- visiting each new system as it's installed (and each time it gets so broken
- that you can't log in via Telnet). The broadcast is only necessary on the
- cable which the querying host is attached to - the routers can forward the
- requests to the servers as unicasts.
-
- 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.
-
- This sounds more like a server software issue than a problem with the
- protocol. I wouldn't turn off logging of failed 'su' attempts, for instance.
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