January 2001
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 52m
English
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What Is BOOTP?
BOOTP, much like RARP, is a protocol that allows a diskless host to request an IP address. It also provides other configuration parameters, as well as supplying a boot file. BOOTP is an IP-based protocol that uses UDP to provide the communication between a BOOTP client and a BOOTP server. More importantly, BOOTP allows hosts (e.g., desktop PCs, servers, X terminals, etc.) to be dynamically configured to use the TCP/IP protocol suite. So instead of manually configuring each TCP/IP-based host on a network, BOOTP delivers the information automatically without user intervention.
BOOTP is a client/server process where the BOOTP client, during the boot phase, requests configuration information from a BOOTP server. The BOOTP server, upon receiving the request from the BOOTP client, looks up the client’s MAC address in its BOOTP configuration database and sends a reply containing IP configuration information. The client receives the reply and configures its TCP/IP stack. The BOOTP client will also load a boot file if the BOOTP server supplies a path using the fully qualified filename. A major improvement is the magic cookie, which is a mechanism for a BOOTP server to supply vendor-specific operating system (OS) options to a BOOTP client. These options could include DNS servers, WINS or NetBIOS name servers (NBNS), time servers, etc.
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There are many configuration options (known as vendor options) available. Refer to RFC-1533 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1533.txt) for ...
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