toback2 wrote:
[snip]
>
> It so happens that Denys called me for assistance about a year ago,
> during precisely the "painful experience" he describes. The 1990-vintage
> Macintosh he was connecting was equipped with MacTCP 2.0.4, which was
> released in 1992. It was too much trouble for him to update to later
> software since he had to connect only one machine. 1992-vintage Macintosh
> software supported BOOTP for IP address management rather than DHCP. This
> astonishing technical lapse can probably be attributed to the fact that
> DHCP had not yet been invented.
>

At least with the HP-UX 10.1 DHCP server, you could flip a switch that
said to supply bootp requests from the DHCP pool.  It worked some of the
time with MacTCP and other devices (e.g. old ethernet hubs).  If I
recall correctly, biggest problem we had (last year, at my former place
of employment) was it didn't set the name servers nor the domain name,
so name resolution didn't work until it was manually configured. Also,
there was some trouble crossing WANs, but then Win 3.x (not Win 95) gave
us trouble there also.

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