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Re: Remote booting without bootp



Hello,

Venkatesh. K <kvs@blr.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
> I would like to remote boot our diskless nodes from
> linux server using netboot.
> [...]
> I would like to know whether it is possibe to burn IP address info
> into the bootrom itself.

No, it is not. And it will not be easy to implement this because the bootrom
gets a whole bunch of information from the BOOTP answer, not only the client
IP address.

gero.

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Gero Kuhlmann, Hannover     0511/6497525 (Voice)        gero@gkminix.han.de



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