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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what's the dhcp solution?
Date: 17 Oct 1996 04:42:54 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <540tb8$98h@bali.seg.wj.com>, alan@bali.seg.wj.com (Alan Strassberg) writes:
>In article <32632eaf.15585624@news.together.net>,
>Scott I. Remick <chroma@together.net> wrote:
>>Could someone fill me in on the scoop with dhcp servers for FreeBSD
>>2.1.5?
>>
>>I've got a network of about 40 systems (a mixture of Win3.1 and
>>Win95), and dhcp would make my life easier.  I've done it with WinNT
>>servers so I know how to set things up on the client.
>
>
>	But grab the latest (Beta 5 Patchlevel 13):
>	http://www.vix.com/pub/isc/dhcp/dhcp-beta.html
>	Compiles out of the box. 
>

I wrote an article earlier this year that may be of some help, it is located at
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/9605/lan9605.htm I used the patched
bootp/DHCP server from Andrew Lindh.

The MS clients DHCP implementations are more fragile than people realize