Sounds like it's using RARP first to translate it's MAC into an IP
address, then hitting the bootp server secondly - already knowing it's IP
address - and just requesting info on the server/file to actually boot
strap itself.  Sun boxes work that way.  You need to add a static arp
entry for them if they netboot.  Otherwise, after about 10 - 15 minutes or
so when other boxes on the net start flushing their arp caches, your
stuck.

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J. Scott Kasten
Email: jsk AT tetracon-eng DOT net

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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Richard van den Berg wrote:

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

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I've now build a kernel which I would like to test on my Indigo;) The
problem is that I can't load it;( I tried bootpd as well as ISC dhcpd.
The result is actually just the same:

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bootp()parkautomat:/tftpboot/vmlinux.ip12

    
No server for parkautomat:/tftpboot/vmlinux.ip12

Just after doing this, does the machine show in the server arp table with
`arp -a`? If so forget this mail, if not issue (of course with the right
addresses) `arp -s 192.168.1.15 08:00:2B:2D:90:C0`

DECstation <-> bootp has following quirk: power it on and let
automatically boot and all goes well. Power it on and leave for a while (a
quarter of an hour) at the PROM-console and then booting, forget it unless
I use the arp -s command...

Regards,
Richard