Re: How to look for specific bootp server

[Mike Cathey <mpcathey@southern.edu>]

Currently on the university campus where I work we are using a DHCP server
to dish out leases on ipaddresses.  I have a separate server I am using
for Bootp testing.  The diskless machine finds the DHCP server and gets
its ipaddress.  Then it trys to find a kernel to boot off of.  I checked
the logs on the Bootp server and it said nothing about a connect from that
ip.  Any suggestions on a solution?

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Charlie Brady wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
> 
> > >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).
> > 
> > Aha.  How do we configure the floppy/EPROM to achieve this?  Thanks.
> 
> You don't, it just happens.
> 
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Thanks,

Mike Cathey

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