Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides a new feature that allows the DHCP Service to respond to BOOTP requests as well as DHCP requests. From RFC 1048, the BOOTP service is defined as follows: "The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) is a...

Chapter 1 of the Microsoft Windows NT Server TCP/IP versions 3.5 and 3.51 guides mention that Microsoft TCP/IP includes Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Windows NT includes the TFTP client utility (TFTP.EXE) only, because TFTP does not...

When a large number of scopes are configured on a Windows NT 4.0 DHCP server, performance degrades to where it cannot keep up with large client loads such as those experienced after a power failure, or at peak network startup times. A list of...