> Actually, RARP worked quite fine and did the same thing as bootp and DHCP while being much simpler, but we don't talk about that. Actually, no. You can only

> Actually, RARP worked quite fine and did the same thing as bootp and DHCP while being much simpler, but we don't talk about that. Actually, no. You can only set an IP address with RARP, not even a netmask (RARP comes from pre-CIDR age) or other important stuff like default gateway, DNS server, etc like you can with DHCP.