[Linux-Discussion] Re: Not So Fast
- From: "John Madden" <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:54:36 -0500 (EST)
> I already know that by using hardware ethernet and fixed address. It is
> very much complicated when I am using TFTP and BOOTP. I have to give
> the all the 75 Nodes hardware address and IP. Is there any way of
> giving the Hardware address in a file If that computer asking for IP
> having the hardware address, the DHCP server has to allocate the IP
> from a pool of address.
Yes, this is exactly what BOOTP does -- statically-defined IP's by
hardware address dynamically assigned when the machine boots. It's the
predecessor to DHCP. So what's the problem that you're having?
John
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