[230] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Boot-P Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Updegrove)
Wed Apr 13 04:30:55 1994
To: Resnet@pobox.upenn.edu, <resnet-forum@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 04:01:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: danu@dccs.upenn.edu (Dan Updegrove)
Matt Arthur writes:
We are slowly looking into setting up all our Residential Computing
Cluster and In-Room connections with Boot-P servers. If anyone out there
can give me some introductory information about the software needed, I
would appreciate it.
Penn has been using a locally-developed BOOTP server since last summer to
assign IP addresses in our ResNet buildings (currently 5, with 11 more to
be wired over the next several years). Our BOOTP behaves this way:
* Each Mac or PC that is connected to the building ethernet is assigned an
IP address for that building (subnet); UNIX boxes assigned manually
* Whenever the machine is conected anywhere in the building (roommate's
jack, jack in living room of suite, jack in lounge, etc.) the same
IP address is assigned
* If machine is moved to another building (subnet), a different IP address
is assigned. This is to accommodate laptops, primarily.
* All addresses will be erased sometime this summer (since comparatively
few students stay in same building, and almost none -- we hope -- need
to keep the same IP address).
I'm hopeful that we can make our BOOTP code available, but our network
engineering staff have concerns that it's "not quite tight enough" to
export.
A veronica search on BOOTP yielded 600+ hits. Of interest:
* About the Princeton BOOTP Service (specifically notes Dormnet)
* rfc951.bootp.
Network Working Group Bill Croft (Stanford University)
Request for Comments: 951 John Gilmore (Sun Microsystems)
September 1985
* rfc1084.bootp-extensions
Network Working Group J. Reynolds
Request for Comments: 1084 ISI
Obsoletes: 1048 December 1988
Regards,
Dan
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