[geeks] Can I netboot a SPARCclassic from Win95 box?

[David Cummings]

http://www.winpcap.org/windump/
tcpdump compatible network sniffer/analyzer

On 6/24/05, Arno Kletzander <Arno_1983 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Thanks for your takes at that problem, among which were:
>
> David Cummings <real.psyence at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is most likely a way to do what you want, though I doubt
> > anyone has tried recently. I've netbooted a SSLX not a week ago,
> > though all the servers (rarpd/dhcpd/tftpd) were linux based.
> Hmm, I thought so: "1337 H4x0Rz do it with Linux"...
>
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-netboot-howto.xml
> > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.sun.html
> Quite useful resources, thanks.
>
> > It's still a flaky process.
> Good to know anyway...
>
> > beyond that, a quick google turned up this windows bootp server
> > for win95, and possibly a rarpd server:
> > http://www.panix.com/~perin/
> Yes, that was the thingie I had already found. It only works with
> Windows 2000/NT but doesn't want to start on 9x.
>
> > Some dhcp servers can also serve bootp and rarpd. Look around in
> > the features of a couple comprehensive ones and I'm sure you can
> > find something that will work.
> Hopefully. However it looks like rarp was no longer in high demand
> when Win95's user base grew... Like I said: Most people wanting to
> netboot a Sun either do so in a network with another one as a server,
> or they're hackers enough to own a linux box.
>
> Mike Meredith <mike at redhairy1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > complains about "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet". I suppose
> > > there should be something like an RARP server running on the PC,
> >
> > Definitely. Later Suns support booting with BOOTP/DHCP but most
> > need RARP. Incidentally if you haven't already, get some sort of
> > packet sniffer ... something like Ethereal might be overkill for
> > the PC you have, but *something* to see what's going down on the
> > wire is pretty essential for this sort of stuff.
>
> Hmm, I'll go looking. I think I have something (maybe called
> EtherDump?) buried somewhere, but IIRC that forces me to set up a
> DOS machine with the crynwyr (sp?) packet drivers. Perhaps there's
something
> around that will also run under Win95.
>
> I'll report back when I've found something possibly helpful...
>
> Thanks, so long
>
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