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From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at zk3.dec.com> > >Has anyone out there used DHCP to obtain IP addresses. DHCP is a Microsft > >rpotocol to dynamically assign IP addresses to a client. Has anyone > >implemented it in Lunux yet. > > No no no no Microsoft didn't invent it. In a meeting last year, a senior executive from Microsoft claimed that Microsoft developed the DHCP protocol. Well, I suspect that he was rather severely extending the truth. Looking at RFC 1531 <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1531.txt> (October 1993), I see 21 references, but none of them name Microsoft. There is an "Acknowledgments" section: Greg Minshall, Leo McLaughlin and John Veizades have patiently contributed to the the design of DHCP through innumerable discussions, meetings and mail conversations. Jeff Mogul first proposed the client-server based model for DHCP. Steve Deering searched the various IP RFCs to put together the list of network parameters supplied by DHCP. Walt Wimer contributed a wealth of practical experience with BOOTP and wrote a document clarifying the behavior of BOOTP/DHCP relay agents. Jesse Walker analyzed DHCP in detail, pointing out several inconsistencies in earlier specifications of the protocol. Steve Alexander reviewed Walker's analysis and the fixes to the protocol based on Walker's work. And, of course, all the members of the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group of the IETF have contributed to the design of the protocol through discussion and review of the protocol design. Perhaps some Microsoft people participated in the DHCP Working Group. Dale -- Dale R. Worley Ariadne Internet Services Voice: +1 617-899-7949 Fax: +1 617-899-7946 E-mail: worley at ariadne.com "Internet-based electronic commerce solutions to real business problems."
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