From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 9: 0:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.pciway.com (216-59-70-70.usa2.flashcom.net [216.59.70.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABBE157CA for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from loren@unix.pciway.com) Received: from localhost (loren@localhost) by unix.pciway.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25693; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from loren@unix.pciway.com) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:01:10 -0800 (PST) From: Loren Koss To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BOOTP/TFTP.. In-Reply-To: <199912101615.LAA11483@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll try that and post my results.. Thank you very much.. I'm still not sure I know what to do after that, but its a start.. Loren On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >Sorry if this message comes over twice, I posted it last night and never > >received a confirmation or saw it appear. Can someone give me a hand. I > >did a little more research and see that DHCPD does some sort of BOOTP for > >backwards compatibility. What about the fact that I don't know the MAC > >address for this new hub? Is there a way I can find that out? I tried > >ARP but it doesn't know it. > > The arp cache won't show it until after you've opened an IP connection > to it, so that method is a catch-22. If the mac address isn't printed on > the device or in the documentation that came with it, one way to get it is > to fire it up with bootp and then look in your bootpd or dhcpd log. If > you're running ISC dhcpd the log will have entries like this: > > Dec 6 08:31:35 bach dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:09:48:6c:84 via fxp0 > Dec 6 08:31:35 bach dhcpd: No applicable record for BOOTP host 08:00:09:48:6c:84 via fxp0 > > bootpd logs something similar and hopefully so do other servers. > > -Mitch > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message