>On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Andrew Purtell wrote:
>> To our systems they looked like badly formatted bootp packets.
>> One of our NT machines started broadcasting these at a similar
>> interval - never did figure out why exactly. Firewalling this
>> traffic off didn't affect anything one way or the other.
>>
>
>That may be DHCP. AFAIK Mickeysnarf reimplemented bootp and named it
>DHCP. Try turning the "Obtain IP address from DHCP server" option...
>
I was under the impression that DHCP was an open protocol (read: not one
created by M$). I thought it was IETF or some such oeg. I know that ISC
currently has a good implementation for UNIX and clones.
I don't think that DHCP broadcasts this repeatedly either. Unless someone has
their lease times set to 7 seconds?!
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