Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:11:21 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: kernel bootp stuff Message-ID: <199701031411.PAA05212@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, I just managed to run (on 2.1R) the kernel bootp stuff I received from Tor Egge. Although I needed some cleanups to overcome limitations of our bootpd (which does not send multicast replies as it should) and mountd (which does not allow mounting files, but only directries; this is fixed in 3.0 -current) I have to say that this stuff is quite useful. Among its advantages: - you don't have to mess up with tftp; all boot info are supplied by bootpd - it can be used with cards (so many of them!) not supported by netboot; just boot from a floppy (or the dos partition with fbsdboot) and you have your system up and running; - it can be used to assign addresses to machines at boot time, rather than having them hardwired in /etc/sysconfig. Before wasting too much time trying to cleanup the code for general use, is there any of the committers interested in adding it to the distributions (post 2.2) ? It's just a couple of new files and very short modifications to 4-5 files mainly to instruct config to deal with the new option properly. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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