Re: XP starts bootpc when connecting to the Internet
From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 10/17/04
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:33:05 -0400
In article <lRcmG6ENvmcBFwbg@care4free.net>, news <news@care4free.net>
wrote:
> Running XP Pro w/ SP1.
>
> Also running sysinternals TCPView to see what's happening TCP/UDP wise.
>
> Whenever I connect to the Internet (using dial-up), an svchost process
> starts a bootpc server. There is no bootpc traffic, and the server dies
> after a few seconds.
>
> Question is: why does bootpc start? As far as I can tell, XP is not
> configured to do any kind of network boot.
DHCP and BOOTP uses the same ports -- DHCP is just an extension of
BOOTP. They're not used for network booting, they're used for getting
configuration settings (e.g. IP address and DNS server) from the ISP.
-- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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