at 22:17 25/05/99 +1000, Ken Yap wrote : >>According to red madhatters, you have to use the DHCP bootp compliant >>package. I'd be interested in any success reports, since I'll prolly have >>some pressure to do this one of these days :-) > >Well, if it's the ISC dhcpd, I have successfully used it with Etherboot >in both DHCP and backwards-compatibility BOOTP mode. The only reason >I haven't switched is inertia; I'll write a Perl script to convert my >bootptab one of these evenings. Oh yes, there was a bug in an earlier >release of DHCPD where it didn't send out the filename in BOOTP mode >but that was ages ago. Oops : forgive my poor English, You're prolly right Ken : this must be the ISC, yet unsure. Anyway, the linux bootpd/tftp package for linux, based on CMU old 4.2 BSDish code, was IMHO showing its age : it was hard to tune in hostile environment, was subject to DoS, seemed to be unable to handle smoothly tftp failures, etc. I needed lots of shell scripts to handle it in tricky students-powered environments. Yet another reason to try this ISC DHCP if you have Linux servers. I read some information about it on the remote-boot mini-Howto from Clerc and others. Inertia is good for me too : I haven't got Linux servers, I have no serious test environment, and, you know, if it works my way, why should I change ? But yet I'm sure that the etherboot communauty would appreciate success reports : anyone starting something here ? -- Pierre MONDIE : SSR : 74-78 =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Pierre MONDIE <pm@univ-evry.fr> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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