Black Box 16 port, 24 port manual Black Box Console Server user guide

The major differences between BOOTP and DHCP are:

•BOOTP is largely reliant on a network client's low level Ethernet address (MAC address) for client information look-up, DHCP has no such limitation, although it is still possible to associate a specific IP address to a specific MAC address.

•Client information supplied by DHCP is supplied on a lease basis, that is to say that the client negotiates with the server for the lease of an IP address for a specific period of time. This allows for the allocation of a fixed pool of client addresses that are allocated by the DHCP server on a “first come first served” basis.

No additional configuration is required in the unit to enable DHCP, however your network server will need to have it's DHCP service configured for Console Server clients and if boot file download is required, then the TFTP service should be configured and running. DHCP/BOOTP can also be disabled completely by setting the configurable server DHCP parameter to off.

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