[KLUG Members] BOOTP cards do not sent DNS Domain name, why?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >No bootp to be found anywhere.  Saying BOOTP is superior to DHCP is
> >total idiocy, and I can't think of a single justification for that
> >statement.
> OK.......... ???? To me they are two methods to dynamically get an IP
> address
> from the server... obiviously there is more to this story.
> As I reconfigure these cards to DHCP, I still desire some background about
> the two standards to understand this decision.

BOOTP is ancient,  DHCP is its successor.  You can set a more robust options
payload with DHCP (netbios information, ntp servers, timezode offset, etc...). 
BOOTP is more-or-less "here is your IP address, have fun".

BOOTP doesn't even do leases, it just hands out addreses from a pool, blindly
and stupidly.  BOOTP can't provide a fully-qualified-domain-name to the client.

Suggesting the use of BOOTP over DHCP in 2004 is just staggering.  I'd suspect
they haven't updated their documentation in going on a decade.