>> You don't have to do anything special. In fact you cannot specify any >> bootp server to send the request to, because normally the bootp request >> is broadcast on the medium. Provided the two bootp servers do not have >> overlapping records, only the one that finds a match to the MAC address >> will send a reply, the other(s) will keep silent. > >Is there any way to make this redudant? Ie. have two bootp server with >overlapping records such that the "backup" bootp only answers upon failure >of the first? Yes, I should have added that overlapping but consistent records is a standard redundancy technique.
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