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The Bootstrap Protocol allows a host to configure itself dynamically at boot time. This protocol provides three services:

  • IP address assignment
  • Detection of the IP address for a serving machine
  • The name of a file to be loaded and executed by the client machine

This protocol is the basis for DHCP. It allows a client computer to receive an IP address from a BootP server without having a static IP address defined beforehand on the client machine.

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