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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@tfs.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD SLIP w/bootp
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 01:44:50 GMT
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leejb@laird.ccds.cincinnati.oh.us (John B. Lee) wrote:
>
> How does one set up SLIP on FreeBSD 2.0a to dial up a SLIP server
> that uses bootp to tell the computer what its IP and nameervers are? I've
> gotten up to the part of dialing and connecting, but how does one do the
> bootp part?
I have that bit on a wish-list (and it has been there for some time.
It amounts to:
A: find out what to send to the other end, which will be
considered a bootp-request
B: receive the reply, and do an "ifconfig" with the result.
If you do it, I will put the code into FreeBSD's slattach.
I imagine that mailing to cs@cisco.com and asking would get you a
reply to 'A'.
Poul-Henning
(FreeBSD core team)