From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 07:21:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA19607 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 07:21:50 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19598 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 07:21:46 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id KAA03265; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 10:20:47 -0400 Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA10119; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 06:23:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 06:23:56 -0400 From: Gene Stark Message-Id: <199506011023.GAA10119@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: freefall.cdrom.com!questions@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu cc: lorenz.enet.dec.com!rose@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, cdrom.com!support@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu Subject: Bootp and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'm trying to get bootp to respond to a request that is broadcast from a >terminal server. I'm using the 2.4.3 version of bootp. I couldn't get the >one that came with 1.1.5.1 to stay running. I can get it to work when the >client sends the request to a specific server machine, but not when the >request is broadcast. Inetd doesn't even start bootp when a broadcast >packet is received. Bootp won't respond to a broadcast packet standalone. >I can see the request packets with tcpdump. The terminal server doesn't >know about my subnet or the server address and there's no way to tell it. >Is there something I'm missing to get this to work? Thanks. Have you checked to make sure that you are listening on the proper broadcast address? The default is xxx.xxx.xxx.255, but xxx.xxx.xxx.0 is also in use by many older machines. You may need to ifconfig a different broadcast address into your network interface on the server. - Gene Stark