Take the tour ×  When a bootp client receives a reply via
hardware broadcast, how does it know whether the reply is
intended for another BOOTP client on the same physical net?
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I don't know much about Bootstrap Protocol. –  ablmf Nov 28 '09
at 11:36 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 3 down vote accepted
the Bootstrap Protocol (defined here) says:   (the transaction
ID discussed above is a field in the BOOTREQUEST packet which is
assigned a number known by the sender of the request. the field
is assigned a random number and it is assumed that there are
almost no chance of collision)  share|improve this answer add
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