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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: double bootp server problem Date: 24 Apr 1996 22:22:07 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4lm9if$s7o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lj0a0$bih@news.simplex.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22222 comp.unix.bsd.misc:847 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18149 rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons) writes: >Now both departments have a bootp server to give out ip's for >pc's on the net which want to connect to UNIX machines. However, >since there are two bootp servers (one on the sales floor, and >one on marketing) they both respond to the requests, and which- >ver comes first .. First, each Ethernet address <-> IP address pair should simply be unique. I don't see a problem then, since the client would always receive the same answer, regardless of which server answered the request. The clean solution would be subnetting. bootp servers are supposed to serve only their own subnett unless bootpgw is being used. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)