HOSTNAME = IP with PXE boot?

Jeroen Akershoek jeroena at sara.nl
Thu Oct 14 14:37:48 CEST 2004


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:29:00 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Tautschnig <michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com> wrote:

> IMHO the point is some magic option in the kernel that usually a 
> configured ip-networking (by pxe) is accepted and never again changed 
> (e.g. by enabling bootp in the kernel) ; furthermore the question is: what 
> did you enable in the kernel: bootp and/or dhcp ?

Only DHCP. I tried both "255.255.255.255:autoconf" and "255.255.255.255:dhcp". With the old
version autoconf worked fine.

Kind regards,
 Jeroen

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