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RARP,BOOTP and DHCP?
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Originally posted by ppp
What is the difference between them?
Good question!
RARP is the oldest, described in RFC903. RARP can assign an IP address to a host. That's it.
BOOTP described in RFC951 also configures the host with the IP address of a server and a filename on that server which can serve as the initial boot image for the given host.
DHCP last described in RFC2131 is really an extension of BOOTP that is much more flexible and extensible. The DHCP server can be configured to supply the client with a lot of optional parameters. Common examples are IP address of DNS servers, default gateway, subnetmask etc. Vendor specific options are also supported, e.g. WINS servers in a Microsoft Environment. The client can choose which options to use or ignore.
Terje |
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