H3C Technologies H3C SecPath F1000-E - Manual (Page 75)

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BOOTP Client Configuration
This chapter includes these sections:
• Introduction to BOOTP Client
• Configuring an Interface to Dynamically Obtain an IP Address Through BOOTP
• Displaying and Maintaining BOOTP Client Configuration
• BOOTP Client Configuration Example
NOTE:
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BOOTP client configuration only applies to Layer 3 Ethernet interfaces (including sub-interfaces), Layer
3 aggregate interfaces and VLAN interfaces.
• If several VLAN interfaces sharing the same MAC address obtain IP addresses through a BOOTP relay
agent, the BOOTP server cannot be a Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server.
• You cannot configure an interface of an aggregation group as a BOOTP client.
Introduction to BOOTP Client
This section covers these topics:
• BOOTP Application
• Obtaining an IP Address Dynamically
• Protocols and Standards
BOOTP Application
After you specify an interface of a device as a BOOTP client, the interface can use BOOTP to get
information (such as IP address) from the BOOTP server, which simplifies your configuration.
Before using BOOTP, an administrator needs to configure a BOOTP parameter file for each BOOTP client
on the BOOTP server. The parameter file contains information such as MAC address and IP address of
a BOOTP client. When a BOOTP client originates a request to the BOOTP server, the BOOTP server will
search for the BOOTP parameter file and return the corresponding configuration information.
Because you need to configure a parameter file for each client on the BOOTP server, BOOTP usually runs
under a relatively stable environment. If the network changes frequently, DHCP is more suitable.
NOTE:
Because a DHCP server can interact with a BOOTP client, you can use the DHCP server to configure an IP
address for the BOOTP client, without any BOOTP server.
Obtaining an IP Address Dynamically
NOTE:
A DHCP server can take the place of the BOOTP server in the following dynamic IP address acquisition.