From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 03:04:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA18762 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 03:04:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from diable.upc.es (diable.upc.es [147.83.98.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA18756 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 03:04:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nurn.upc.es (nurn.upc.es [147.83.4.141]) by diable.upc.es (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22592 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:04:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from NURN/SpoolDir by nurn.upc.es (Mercury 1.21); 21 Feb 97 12:12:05 EST Received: from SpoolDir by NURN (Mercury 1.22-b2); 21 Feb 97 12:11:38 EST From: "Ruben Menendez" Organization: UPC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:11:33 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: How to get an IP from a bootp server when booting Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <4C088404C6@nurn.upc.es> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I want to boot from an HD but the IP no. should be dinamically given by a bootp server. Then I whould have a different IP number depending on the PC that I put the disk. I think ifconfig always needs a IP number, isn't it? Then I don't know how to set up for reading it from a bootp server.. Ruben.