Bootp and DHCP on same physical network. (WNT)

[gnaar]

I want a bootp server in my network, which already has a dhcp server (NT 4.0) in place.

My question is ....
Can bootp and DHCP exist on a same physical network?
Will there be any conflict between these two services, so that my dhcp operation may get affcted?

Please help..


Gnaar

[Andy-S]

Bootp and DHCP can co-exist. DHCP servers ignore the Bootp requests as they are looking for the DHCP request header in the packet. Just make sure that the IP scopes are different.

This article provides some details on using DHCP for Bootp clients.

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/tcpip/part2/tcpch04.asp>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/tcpip/part2/tcpch04.asp</a>

Cheers
Andy

[mysterywolf]

not only can they co-exist but the dhcp server assists as detailed in this excerpt from a nsoft white paper...

he Microsoft DHCP server offers BOOTP support in the form of pointer records contained in the BOOTP table. Data stored there is returned to any BOOTP clients on the network that broadcast a BOOTP request message. If a BOOTP record exists in the BOOTP table, the Microsoft DHCP server returns a BOOTP message to the requesting BOOTP client, and if no BOOTP records are configured, the Microsoft DHCP server silently ignores BOOTP request messages.
The reply message returned by the Microsoft DHCP server indicates the name and location of a TFTP server on the network that the client can then contact to retrieve its boot image file. Each record in the BOOTP table contains the following three fields, which contain the information returned to the BOOTP client:
·The Boot Image identifies the generic file name of the boot file requested, based on the BOOTP client’s computer type.
·The File Name identifies the full path of the boot file returned by TFTP by the BOOTP server to the client.
·The File Server identifies the TFTP server used to source the boot file.
The DHCP Manager can add, remove, and edit records in the BOOTP table.