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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!serra.unipi.it!pical2!luigi From: luigi@pical2.uucp (Luigi Rizzo) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does bootp run on FreeBSD? Date: 25 Jan 1994 17:50:09 GMT Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa (ITALY) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2i3m4h$ioc@serra.unipi.it> References: <2hka4n$gh1@scunix2.harvard.edu> <JKH.94Jan20222311@whisker.lotus.ie> <1994Jan24.203610.17060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pical2.iet.unipi.it In article <1994Jan24.203610.17060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) writes: > >I don't think there is a version of bootp for FreeBSD right now (at least >there isn't in the main source tree). There is, however, support for >booting diskless if you have a bootp/tftp server somewhere on your >network. The WD80x3 cards are supported at the moment from a dos >executable or via ROM on the ethernet card. > >Adding bootp to the source tree for FreeBSD is something that needs to be >done. I have a port from CMU sources that works for us. It is available by anonymous ftp from pical3.iet.unipi.it (131.114.9.12). I did it on 386BSD, and it compiles fine on FreeBSD (with some warnings, but we have been using it for a month now). Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================