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What are the DHCP plans of major client-software vendors?

April 26, 2017DHCP plans vendors

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What are the DHCP plans of major client-software vendors?

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Apple MacOS MacTCP’s successor, Open Transport, supports DHCP. Open Transport 1.1 ships with System 7.5 Update 2.0 (which updates MacOS to version 7.5.3, released March 11, 1996) and supports any 68030, 68040, or PowerPC Macintosh. A shrink wrap version of Open Transport is planned. Microsoft Windows95 supports it and does not support BOOTP. I heard a rumor that BOOTP support will be added. Novell LAN Workplace for DOS For supporting DOS/Windows 3.1, Client32 for DOS/Windows, due in June 1996, will provide the TCP/IP stack functions and will support DHCP and BOOTP. For Windows 95 and Windows NT, the native stack will be used so that DHCP is supported. IBM OS/2 Warp supports it. • What Routers forward DHCP requests? (This is not necessarily a complete list). Note that in general, these routers probably already had BOOTP forwarding, but lacked the support for the BOOTP broadcast flag (see “broadcast flag” under What are the Gotcha’s? above). It is likely that many other routers also supp