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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!news.cc.ic.ac.uk!usenet From: s.elliott@ic.ac.uk (Scot Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd,alt.allsysop Subject: BOOTP Servers. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 21:41:02 GMT Organization: Imperial College, London, UK Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4905ff$kud@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: anxa07.cc.ic.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:35288 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1530 alt.allsysop:175 Hi all. Sorry for the cross-postings here, but I'm new to most these groups. Anyway - I'm trying to implement a PC running BSDI's package, as a BOOTP server for our network of PCs and VAXes (Multinet). The PCs are using the Chamelion IP stack, setup to use BOOTP for its IP address, gateway etc etc. I have created a bootptab file, and un-commented the bootp stuff in the inetd.conf file. But I keep getting SYSLOG errors about ARP requests failing. When I use ARP -d to see the current entries, the requesting PC's address is there, but there does not appear to have been a boot-reply sent to the PC by my machine. Do I also neet to use the /etc/ethers file, or start any other demons to make this work (BOOTPD starts when it receives a request), or create any special directories anywhere (someone else mentioned this)? - Or could I have a copy of some one else's tab file to see where I'm going wrong? I would appreciate anyone's input here, because I've spend many hours just watching blank screens recently! Thanks a lot - Yours, Scot Elliott. Dept. Computing, Imperial College, London.