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Black Box Console Server user guide 37
The major differences between BOOTP and DHCP are:
• BOOTP is largely reliant on a network client's low level Ethernet address (MAC
address) for client information look-up, DHCP has no such limitation, although it
is still possible to associate a specific IP address to a specific MAC address.
• Client information supplied by DHCP is supplied on a lease basis, that is to say
that the client negotiates with the server for the lease of an IP address for a specific
period of time. This allows for the allocation of a fixed pool of client addresses
that are allocated by the DHCP server on a “first come first served” basis.
No additional configuration is required in the unit to enable DHCP, however your
network server will need to have it's DHCP service configured for Console Server
clients and if boot file download is required, then the TFTP service should be configured
and running. DHCP/BOOTP can also be disabled completely by setting the configurable
server DHCP parameter to off.