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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 95 11:30:55 PDT
From:      rose@lorenz.ENET.dec.com
To:        questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Cc:        rose@lorenz.ENET.dec.com
Subject:   Bootp and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 - more information
Message-ID:  <9506021823.AA27254@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>

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I think that I've determined that the terminal server (Decserver 700) is 
sending an ethernet broadcast message to hardware address ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.
The installation documentation says that bootp should get this request and 
respond with the load information to begin the tftp dialog.  I've tried to
trace the mechanism for allowing a program to respond to these messages, but I
can't seem to find much on it.  Is there some special configuration to allow
ethernet broadcast packets to be sent to an application (bootp in this case)? 
Thanks?

Steve Rose
work:   rose@lorenz.enet.dec.com
home:   rose@dml.com




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