Re: Possible to include ARP support in Netboot with 16KB and etc.

[Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Mike Hammer wrote:

> It seems when i use BOOTPD with TFTPD there's *no* ARP request sent
> by NT server but when i use NT's DHCP with TFTPD there's ARP request
> sent by the NT server.  Sort of strange since i thought ARP should
> not be needed from prior DHCP information from client and the client
> IP-MAC should have been cached in.

IIRC, the ARP is the DHCP server checking that no other host is claiming
the IP address before offering it to the client.

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