BOOTP server

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:20:49 -0800 (PST), Air Heechul <jijisa at n2h2.com> said:

    > environment.  But we have some problems.. We are running dhcp
    > server for windows clients to assign IP addresses dynamically.
    > I install FAI and install boopd on the same machine and make a
    > fai floppy disk with BOOTP support. But when I boot the fai
    > client with a fai floppy disk, it gets IP and all network
    > configuration from dhcp server, not the bootp server which is a
There are two request to the BOOTP information. First the kernel tries
to get its IP-address, gateway and netmask. Later the script rcS_fai gets
additional BOOTP information using the command bootpc in
lib/subroutines. You can add the option " --server addr" to the bootpc
call. Maybe this this will be included in FAI next time.

If you want to omit the first request from the kernel, you can add
kernel parameters onto the floppy (see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt:
nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>] and
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
). Therefore you have to change the script make-fai-bootfloppy. The
you kernel will not need the BOOTP option.

Please send a mail, if this works as I guess.

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 Thomas
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