unsaint32
Member
Hi. I have used Bootp utility all the time to assign IP address to MLX1100 successfully, but I always had few questions. Just FYI, I am using Rockwell Bootp/DHCP Server Utility 2.3.
#1) Why doesn't my home router/modem send bootp requests? Or at least I don't see them in the request history panel of the Bootp utility?
#2) Can a PLC broadcast DHCP requests, rather than Bootp requests?
#3) Related to the previous question, what does the Enable DHCP button do? An industrial process network cannot have a PLC's IP address changing on its own, and I guess that is the reason for Bootp being used, not DHCP. But I guess in some applications (I don't know), dynamic addressing doesn't matter therefore DHCP can be used, hence the "Enable DHCP" function. Is my reasoning correct?
#1) Why doesn't my home router/modem send bootp requests? Or at least I don't see them in the request history panel of the Bootp utility?
#2) Can a PLC broadcast DHCP requests, rather than Bootp requests?
#3) Related to the previous question, what does the Enable DHCP button do? An industrial process network cannot have a PLC's IP address changing on its own, and I guess that is the reason for Bootp being used, not DHCP. But I guess in some applications (I don't know), dynamic addressing doesn't matter therefore DHCP can be used, hence the "Enable DHCP" function. Is my reasoning correct?