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Chapter 5

RARP is still very much in use, and may even grow as more household appliances become IP devices. For larger configurations, such as that which the University of Bath runs in its library, with the servers located in the Computing Services building at the far end of an ATM network, it has been replaced by BOOTP (see Chapter 16), or DHCP (RFC 2131).

James Davenport 2004-03-09