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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 1995 06:23:56 -0400
From:      Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
To:        freefall.cdrom.com!questions@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu
Cc:        lorenz.enet.dec.com!rose@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, cdrom.com!support@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu
Subject:   Bootp and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Message-ID:  <199506011023.GAA10119@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>

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>I'm trying to get bootp to respond to a request that is broadcast from a
>terminal server.  I'm using the 2.4.3 version of bootp.  I couldn't get the
>one that came with 1.1.5.1 to stay running.  I can get it to work when the
>client sends the request to a specific server machine, but not when the
>request is broadcast.  Inetd doesn't even start bootp when a broadcast
>packet is received.  Bootp won't respond to a broadcast packet standalone.
>I can see the request packets with tcpdump.  The terminal server doesn't
>know about my subnet or the server address and there's no way to tell it.
>Is there something I'm missing to get this to work?  Thanks.

Have you checked to make sure that you are listening on the proper broadcast
address?  The default is xxx.xxx.xxx.255, but xxx.xxx.xxx.0 is also in use
by many older machines.  You may need to ifconfig a different broadcast
address into your network interface on the server.

							- Gene Stark




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