Explain BOOTP (Boot Strap Protocol).
TCP or IP designer observed that several of the configuration steps could be combined in a single step if a server was capable to supply more than single item of configuration information. To give this a service BOOTP was invented.
Protocol software broadcasts a BOOTP request message to acquire configuration information. The request looks up some pieces of configuration information receive by A BOOTP server for the computer that issued the request in a single BOOTP response message, and give return reply to the requesting computer.