On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, S. Arun wrote:
> However, when the TFTP server lies beyond a gateway, things dont work.
> Running tcpdump on the LAN the diskless machine sits shows that the
> diskless machine is issuing tftp requests to the tftp server. running
> tcpdump on the tftp server shows the tftp server receiving the packets and
> replying to them, but there is no sign of these packets on the LAN of the
> diskless PC.
This could be due to the total-transmission-timeout. Also the machine
behind the gateway has to be specified in a particular format (something
like gateway/host ). Just checkup the site www.bootix.com.... they have a
way of booting from a host behind a gateway....using a similar format
that I have mentioned above.
Tejasvi M.
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