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DHCP BOOTP Boot File Configuration

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) is a host configuration protocol developed before Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). DHCP improves on BOOTP and resolves its limitations as a host configuration service.

To configure your DHCP server to assign Internet Protocol (IP) address information to BOOTP clients, you must add a reservation for each BOOTP client. The reservation builds an association between the media access control (MAC)  address and the IP address.

Events

Event ID Source Message

1025

Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Server

 The DHCP service was unable to read the BOOTP file table from the registry. The DHCP service will be unable to respond to BOOTP requests that specify the boot file name.

1026

Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Server

 The DHCP service was unable to read the global BOOTP file name from the registry.

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