From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 01:17:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA08805 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sili.adn.edu.ph (root@sili.adn.edu.ph [165.220.57.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA08794 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from info@localhost) by sili.adn.edu.ph (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA20493; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:27:39 +1000 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:27:39 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Information Help Desk To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: No response from bootp server Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HI !!! I recently set-up my fbsd box as a bootp server. I ran bootpd as a standalone process, (bootpd -s), and modified /etc/bootptab. It now contains the following, .default:\ :hn:dn=mydomain:\ :hd=/usr/boot:\ :ds=mynameserver:\ :sm=mynetmask:\ :gw=mygateway: csdept :ht=ether:ha=0020AFA73683:tc=.default: To find out if it works, I tested it out in one workstation connected to the network. I run windows and tcpman wherein I put 'bootp' instead of an IP address in the setup. It works just fine and the workstation was able to get the IP from my fbsd bootp server. Then, I tried NCSA telnet for PC's. I modified the configuration file 'config.tel'. ... #myip=165.220.57.10 myip=BOOTP ... I tried to telnet to one of our hosts in the network using NCSA telnet. However, after waiting for 20 seconds, NCSA telnet responds back with No respond from BOOTP server Unable to initialize or read the configuration file BOOTP Failed ! How come there was no respond from my BOOTP server? The hardware address is indicated above in the bootptab file. Thank you ~:') -- jf