Re: Kernel IP-Autoconfiguration.

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:46:46 -0400


Martin Mares wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > dharma is serving dhcp-/bootprequest on this network. cryo is set to
> > obtain it's ip-config at boot-time. Whenever cryo boots, it sends
> > bootp-requests. But the requests eventually times out.
>
> Please send me the kernel boot messages related to IP autoconfiguration
> and your .config.

I have never been able to get dhcpd's BOOTP services to work correctly.
With the X-terms at an old job, and with my Alpha kernel (loaded via
bootp), I had to use CMU's bootpd in order to get things working
properly. In particular I seem to recall dhcpd's BOOTP support missing
a tag or two.

With respect to timeouts, though, there is one thing to watch for: your
bootp requests may be succeeding, but the tftp step following the BOOTP
reply may be failing. Some

Jeff

-- 
He's pretty fly for a rabbi

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