Exercises

16.1	We've said that one advantage of BOOTP over RARP is that BOOTP can work through routers, whereas RARP, which is a link-layer broadcast, cannot. Yet in Section 16.5 we had to define special ways for BOOTP to work through a router. What would happen if a capability were added to routers allowing them to forward RARP requests ?
16.2	We said that a BOOTP client must use the transaction ID to match responses with requests, in case there are multiple clients bootstrapping at the same time from a server that broadcasts replies. But in Figure 16.3 the transaction ID is 0, implying that this client ignores the transaction ID. How do you think this client matches the responses with its requests?