"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." RARP is basically dhcp but

"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." RARP is basically dhcp but only for your IP address. DHCP/bootp won because you sort of need a bit more than your ip. It was also easier to manage. RARP probably still works mostly.