BOOTP Clients Requesting IP Address Information Only

Previously, BOOTP client support through the DHCP server required an explicit client reservation to be made for each BOOTP client.

With new support for dynamic BOOTP, a pool of addresses can be designated—similar to the way a scope is used for DHCP clients—to dynamically manage IP address assignment for BOOTP clients. The DHCP service can later reclaim addresses used in the dynamic BOOTP address pool, after first verifying that a specified lease time has elapsed and that each address is not still in use by the BOOTP client.

To configure your DHCP server to assign and distribute IP address information to BOOTP clients, you must configure a BOOTP address pool within a DHCP scope on the server.

Another option to the dynamic BOOTP address pool is to add a client reservation for each BOOTP client within your DHCP scopes. A reservation builds an association between the BOOTP client's media access control address (encoded in its physical hardware) and its leased IP address. When a reserved client requests the reservation of an IP address, the DHCP service returns the appropriate reserved IP address in the lease response based on the client's media access control address included in the BOOTP request message.

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