What Is DHCP And What Is The Difference Between BOOTP & DHCP?
DHCP vs BOOTP A lot of people are already quite familiar with DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) as it is very commonplace in a lot of networks, whether corporate or home. What a lot of people don’t know is that DHCP was designed to be the successor to the older Bootstrap Protocol, more commonly referred to as BOOTP to adapt to the changing needs of the industry. BOOTP was designed to provide an IP address during the bootstrap process or while the computer is booting up. BOOTP is also capable of pointing the client to the location of an image file containing an operating system, which can be used by thin clients or diskless computers. DHCP focuses on providing IP addresses to computers that may be relocated quite often. Unlike BOOTP that needs to communicate with the client during bootstrap, DHCP is able to communicate with the client after the operating system is loaded. This makes it easier for users to properly have their computers up and running without having to reboot the
