From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (pneumatic-tube.sgi.com [204.94.214.22]) by lara.stud.fh-heilbronn.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA03945 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:18:26 +0200 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id GAA4819978; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:11:15 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id GAA40819 for linux-list; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:06:36 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from neteng.engr.sgi.com (neteng.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.10]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id GAA91268 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:06:33 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@neteng.engr.sgi.com) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id GAA74604 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id GAA16855 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:06:29 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (clepple@mitre.org) Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id GAA07651 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:06:28 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (clepple@mitre.org) Received: from mitre.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11713 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:06:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <378350D1.77F4554D@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:06:26 -0400 From: Charles Lepple Reply-To: clepple@foo.tho.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@neteng.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: where's dhcp_bootp? References: <19990707013401.C1630@uni-koblenz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ralf Baechle wrote: > IRIX bootp definately works, it unfortunately just has a different > configfile from Linux's bootp. One thing that can bite you is that many bootp daemons give no indication of truncated replies (ie, your parameters don't fit into one packet). Use a sniffer-- I've solved a number of problems by just not sending as much. --Charles Lepple clepple@mitre.org