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- From: ALB@celio.uvm.edu (Allan Bazinet)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: RARP support for tcp/ip lanman from microsoft
- Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921223083536.1184@celio.uvm.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:35:36 GMT
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- Organization: University of Vermont
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- > >Don, RARP is not as well designed as BOOTP. I'd look for a BOOTP solution
- > >before RARP.
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- > If you do any subnetting your in trouble with BOOTP as well. You can't do
- > BOOTP over Cisco's (RARP doesn't either) because the client on the other
- > side of it will get the hardware address of the cisco instead of it's own.
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- Doing BOOTP here for ~600 client machines from an RS/6000 server.
- Crossing 2 Cisco AGS+ routers in the process doesn't pose a problem.
- One must ensure to set the default ip-helper address for the Ciscos
- to the address of the server, or a subnet broadcast (we have a few
- servers on the same subnet) in our case.
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- Allan L. Bazinet, Computer Operations, University of Vermont
- alb@celio.uvm.edu alb@uvmadmin.uvm.edu (802)656-8785
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