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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!odinn!bolsen From: bolsen@seanet.com (Bruce Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Experiences with bootp gateway? Date: 29 Oct 1995 08:25:10 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 24 Sender: bolsen@odinn (Bruce Olsen) Message-ID: <46vdp6$570@kaleka.seanet.com> References: <DGzw2D.6o9@theatre.pandora.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: odinn.seanet.com In article <DGzw2D.6o9@theatre.pandora.sax.de>, mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk) writes: |> 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? I have a router (Cisco 7000) and have had to configure "helper addresses" to pass bootp between network segments.