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From: gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Subject: Re: Bootp on FreeBSD
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In article <766726725.AA02644@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org>,
Clarence Chu <Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> wrote:
>to port bootp-2.1, as mentioned in netboot.doc
> 
>Have there been anyone who had ever ported it on
>FreeBSD, i.e. use a [345]86 as the boot server?

I have bootp 2.1a working fine here.  There were some porting issues, as I
recall, mainly having to do with the variable-length structure being
returned by SIOCGIFCONF.

If you're interested in the diffs, let me know (as well as others).  I figured
someone else had done this by now....but if not, I would be happy to make the
diffs available on the net.

What I'm using bootp for right now is so that the PC on my local net running
MSDOG & Clarkson's CUTCP/CUTE can bootp its IP address, netmask, gateway,
and nameserver from the FreeBSD machine.  It works quite well.

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