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Re: booting over gateways ?




>is it possible to boot over gateways ?
>I've got a gateway with bootpgw on it. The boot-client gets the correct
>IP-address of the bootp-server via the gateway but it can't download the
>necessary files via TFTP ?
>In the same network it all works perfectly.

Yes, you need to specify the gateway in the appropriate bootp or DHCP
field. And the gateway has to relay the TFTP packets of course.
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