[rescue] bootpd

[Mike Hebel]

DM> BOOTP Support
DM>        Each BOOTP client  must  be  explicitly  declared  in  the
DM>        dhcpd.conf  file.    A  very basic client declaration will
DM>        specify the client network  interface's  hardware  address
DM>        and  the  IP  address  to  assign to that client.   If the
DM>        client needs to be able to  load  a  boot  file  from  the
DM>        server,  that  file's  name  must be specified.   A simple
DM>        bootp client declaration might look like this:

DM>             host haagen {
DM>               hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:59:23;
DM>               fixed-address 239.252.197.9;
DM>               filename "/tftpboot/haagen.boot";
DM>             }

Y'know - I tried using this to setup a Solaris x86 system but I
couldn't get it to work worth a damn.  I think I managed to get the
ARP/RARP stuff right because I could ping the system somewhere in
the process but I couldn't get it to load the OS.

Is there a good tutorial on this somewhere?  I'd like to use it to try
and fix the loading of my Dataproducts printer so that the ethernet on
it works again.

Mike                         mailto:nimitz at owc.net