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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Experiences with bootp gateway?
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DGzw2D.6o9@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 08:11:00 GMT
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Good morning,
I'm cleaning up our network here and I ran into some problems... :-)
Well, the DNS works fine now (got away from that /etc/hosts files,
as some of the machines are DOS boxes and some are even worse and
not able to do NIS), the routing works - I have two Ethernet based
LANs connected via two modem on a leased line using SLIP on a
FreeBSD machine at each end. We have a class C network divided
into six sub nets (netmask 255.255.255.224) an one of those sub nets
on each side of the FreeBSD machines.
Everything looks fine now, but... I'm using the BOOTP protocol
for some DOS machines because I don't want a special configuration
on each of them. This worked fine using one FreeBSD on each side
as a BOOTP server when there was no connection between both
networks.
Now, as it's all happily connected together, I want to get rid of
one of the BOOTP servers so I looked up the man pages and found
a program called bootpgw (BOOTP gateway) that should pick up bootp
requests on one subnet and forward them to a bootpd on another net.
Sounds fine, seems to work a little - my DOS machine, running
NCSA telnet, does it's bootp request and gets no answer! I'm sure
the bootp gateway works: bootpd is started via inetd. When I kill
it on the machine on the 2nd subnet and start some software doing
bootp request (NCSA telnet, XFS, utilities using the WATTCP libs)
on the 1st subnet, the bootpd is started again, but its answer
doesn't get through.
What did I miss?
Bye and thank you very much in advance,
Martin
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