History
The BOOTP protocol was first defined in September 1985 in RFC 951 as a replacement for the Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RARP, published in RFC 903 in June 1984. The primary motivation for replacing RARP with BOOTP is that RARP was a data link layer protocol. This made implementation difficult on many server platforms, and required that a server be present on each individual IP subnet. BOOTP introduced the innovation of a relay agent, which allowed BOOTP packets to be forwarded from the local network using standard IP routing, so that one central BOOTP server could serve hosts on many subnets.
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