Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:01:10 -0800 (PST) From: Loren Koss <loren@pciway.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BOOTP/TFTP.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912100900440.25691-100000@unix.pciway.com> In-Reply-To: <199912101615.LAA11483@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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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
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