Re: How to look for specific bootp server

[Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 markus@infoscape.com wrote:

> Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah writes:
>  > Using etherboot, how do I configure the PROM or floppy so that the diskless
>  > client will look for a specific bootp server only.  This is to avoid conflicts
>  > arising from the presence of more than one bootp servers.
> 
> This is not possible. The BOOTP protocol requires the initial request
> is sent out as a broadcasted datagram. OTOH, you should not see any
> conflicts between the servers, because you servers should be
> configured to only respond to known MAC addresses.

In the case of DHCP (if you have configured etherboot/netboot to use DHCP
rather than BOOTP), the protocol allows for multiple servers which the
client then chooses between (usually, I think, by grabbing the first
offer).

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