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Re: Why DHCP not for routers?

Greg E Hersh <geh@world.std.com> Thu, 28 March 1996 21:15 UTC

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From: Greg E Hersh <geh@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Why DHCP not for routers?
To: Rajesh Saluja <rsaluja@wipinfo.soft.net>
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From the routers' management perspective, you certainly want them to be
'self-sufficient' so to speak and not to depend on anything. Routers
consitute a backbone of your network.

Greg.


On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Rajesh Saluja wrote:

> In the RFC1541 and the latest DHCP draft, it is mentioned that
> " DHCP is not intended for configuring routers".
>                       Can someone listout the problems if DHCP is used for 
> configuring a router?  Your help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Best regards:
> Rajesh
>

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