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Re: Support for DHCP?



>Hello Ken,
>
>I'm starting to understand DHCP in differences with BOOTP.  For sometime
>now, i've been exclusively using Linux box for hosting remote clients
>booting with bootpd and tftpd.  I would like to try adding Windows NT
>however NT does *not* support bootpd and tftpd, however has dhcp server.
>I believe dhcp server in NT does support some level of bootp thus
>NT dhcp server should be able to service bootp requests.  I'm investigating
>this now.
>
>As for tftpd, NT does not have it.

Remember the tftpd host doesn't not necessarily have to be the same
server as the bootpd host. You can mix and match. All these things are
configurable in the bootp record.



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