Jamie Magin 💜 on Nostr: It probably confuses some younger folks that the DHCP client port resolves to ...

It probably confuses some younger folks that the DHCP client port resolves to "bootpc" via /etc/services.

But there was this whole less sophisticated predecessor to DHCP called BOOTP. And it was a lot better than RARP (literally reverse ARP).

I think the last time I actually had to worry about BOOTP was playing with then-obsolete computers in the late-90s.