Re: Re: DHCP

Amos Hayes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.slimp3.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Sean Adams wrote:

> Any objections to having bootp but *not* dhcp?  AFAIK all DHCP servers
> support BOOTP; the only real downside to bootp for this application is
> the lack of lease/renew functionality. I'll do bootp and we can decide
> later if dhcp is necessary.

I think it should do DHCP personally. Someone who has a home LAN these
days will either have DHCP (set up themselves or provided by something
like a Linksys gateway/hub combo) or will have an understanding of dotted
quad IPs. I would not assume that something like a lynksys (or even a
software deamon) will support bootp all the time.

As for something custom for people with none of the above, if the unit
can't get a DHCP response it can then do something custom. What that would
be I don't know.

It should in any case ask you about manually vs. automatic config before
going about its business.

I can see why this is more work... the lease/renew stuff especially... but
probably better in the long run.

--
Amos Hayes
[email protected]


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