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by **Rene de Haa** » Sun, 10 Aug 1997 04:00:00

Hello everyone,

Ive got BootP succesfull running on a Linux Redhat 4.1 (kerlen 2.0.30)
server, providing the
IP's for over a 20 networking computer (including a Windows NT Server
(gnagna)).

But, when I look at the network traffic, I saw that the BootPD was
sending the IP-adresses over
and over again, every second !! I looked at the IP-timeout an my Win 95
system, and yes, after
getting the IP-adress, it immediatly has to get a new one (which
ofcourse is the same !!), because
it has reacht its timeout.
I tried to make the BootPD-server tell the machines that there may be a
timeout of 5 minutes, which
means that all computer will refresh its IP-adress every 5 minutes. But
I dont't know how !!

I have read the HOWTO's, the man-pages, even looked on the Web, but I
still don't know how to
do this. (Remark, the NT-server has a BootPB server where it is
possible).

Can anyone tell me if this is poosible, and if, how I make it work ??

Thanks in advance,

Ren de Haan,

by **Lewis Peri** » Sun, 10 Aug 1997 04:00:00

Quote:
> Hello everyone,

> Ive got BootP succesfull running on a Linux Redhat 4.1 (kerlen 2.0.30)
> server, providing the
> IP's for over a 20 networking computer (including a Windows NT Server
> (gnagna)).

> But, when I look at the network traffic, I saw that the BootPD was
> sending the IP-adresses over
> and over again, every second !! I looked at the IP-timeout an my Win 95
> system, and yes, after
> getting the IP-adress, it immediatly has to get a new one (which
> ofcourse is the same !!), because
> it has reacht its timeout.
> I tried to make the BootPD-server tell the machines that there may be a
> timeout of 5 minutes, which
> means that all computer will refresh its IP-adress every 5 minutes. But
> I dont't know how !!

> I have read the HOWTO's, the man-pages, even looked on the Web, but I
> still don't know how to
> do this. (Remark, the NT-server has a BootPB server where it is
> possible).

> Can anyone tell me if this is poosible, and if, how I make it work ??

It sounds as if your NT and 95 machines have DHCP (not bootp) clients,
which is after all what comes with those MS operating systems. You
could avoid this trouble by getting the free Win95/NT bootp client
billgPC, which you can download from <www.panix.com/~perin/>.

Cheers, Lew

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