Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:03:11 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: n@nectar.com (Jacques Vidrine) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel BOOTP Message-ID: <199811120803.JAA09255@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199811102018.OAA20884@spawn.nectar.com> from "Jacques Vidrine" at Nov 10, 98 02:17:41 pm
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> Hi, > > I'm attempting to boot a machine off the floppy, and mount all filesystems > over NFS. The network card is supported by the kernel xl driver, but not > by the netboot code. Therefore, I created a kernel with the BOOTP and > BOOTP_NFSROOT options and put it on a floppy. > > The reply from the BOOTP server is not being received (i.e. ``BOOTP > timeout for server 0xffffffff''). The client and the BOOTP server are > on the same network. there's a chicken and egg problem -- the bootp server is responding to the client's IP address and the latter refuses the reply because it does not know its address (some servers solve the problem by replying to the broadcast address 255.255.255.255, but not all of them and apparently not the one in FreeBSD). You need another option, BOOTP_COMPAT or so, to enable your machine to accept packets before the network card is assigned an address. Look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT. > Is there any documentation for use of kernel BOOTP? Is anyone using it > successfully? something is at http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD.html/ cheers 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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