Re: [ECOS] How the Bootp work in RedBoot?

["Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 00:10, Boen Shieh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have replaced my rtl8139 ethernet card with Intel Pro/100+(82559 chipset) in my standard i386 PC target, and the ethernet 
> card could be found by redboot finally, and the MAC address was displayed on screen. 
> 
> But it told me that "Can't get BOOTP info for device! DNS server IP set to 0.0.0.0 - lookups disabled!" 
> 
> I have configured a DHCP server, i.e. the dhcpd in RedHat 9, in my host, it seems not worked. Hope experts give me answer
> like ever done, please!
> 

Configuring for BOOTP is a little more complicated than just DHCP.
For BOOTP, the server needs to know exactly the ESA (MAC) address
which is used by the actual networking card.  Look at the attached
example - my local DHCP setup.

What you'll need to do is scan the log file (/var/log/messages)
for messages about BOOTP - for something like "no applicable record"
(I don't have the message handy).  Then you can tell the ESA to
plug into your DHCP config file.  Don't forget to restart your
DHCP server after your update the file.

-- 
Gary D. Thomas <gary.thomas@mind.be>

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