But bootpd has two major advantages to go for it:

- it's standard in any reasonable BSD system
- it's easier to configure

you just edit the /etc/bootptab and off you go.


> dhcpd and bootp speaks the same language. Pick one or the other. But I'd
> recommend dhcpd, since it's a superset of bootp.


don't care about the super, don't need it for netbooting
and only makes configuration harder. More knobs to turn,
more things to go wrong.

> If you use bootp, you
> need some other silly way of telling what address, dns server, and a bunch
> of other things should be used...


/etc/bootptab isn't silly. If you have ever edited
/etc/disktab (like you had to with 4.x BSD) it's got the
same look and feel.

 
> I actually think that bootp is officially "obsolete".


don't care as long as it works. I use it all the time and
I'm happy with it. I do use ISC-DHCPD 3 but only when I
have to.

regards,
-Gunther

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