A brief, sharp sound: the click of a door latch. 2. A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position. 3. Computers. a. An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.
4.3. Booting from the network is only required in certain cases. Booting from the network is very usefull when you have unsupported I/O devices, diskless systems, or systems with broken hardware. Network booting is detailed below.
Certain HP printers equipped with an Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) use the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) to acquire IP addresses and relative network information.BOOTP allows a diskless client to configure itself dynamically at the time of booting. This includes discovering its own IP address and boot information.his will be the address to which the BOOTP server will send the BOOTP response. The router forwards this packet as an IP unicast to the IP helper address. The BOOTP server gets the packet, finds the client's MAC address in its tables, and sends a reply with the client's IP address and boot file information.