A protocol used primarily on TCP/IP networks to configure diskless workstations. When the client machines do not have the harddisks for storing the operating systems, either the floppy or the network interface LAN card(have the program to detect the server and boot from the same) are used to boot the computer and the program in that detects the BOOTP server to obtain the IP Address. DHCP works on the machines having the harddisk and the operating system is loaded into the memory. But BOOTP doesnot require the Harddisk in the computer and the OPerating system is loaded from the server by obtaining the IP Address through the BOOTP process.
K. Rajkumar
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