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Re: BOOTP via router ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK])
Tue Jun 13 17:13:36 1995
From: "Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK]" <mea@mea.cc.utu.fi>
To: lotz@stud.fh-heilbronn.de (Christian Lotz)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:38:54 +0300 (EET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950613103113.29240A-100000@zeus.stud.fh-heilbronn.de> from "Christian Lotz" at Jun 13, 95 10:38:28 am
> Hi there,
>
> I wondered if it is possible to boot some diskless clients from a server
> located in a different subnet. Do i need a special kind of router, or
> some additional software... ??
Yes. You need a router which has "BOOTP relay agent".
> Are there any problems in generall.. ?? Will a linux-router do this job .. ??
Stevens says in his "TCP/IP Illustriated vol1, p.220" that:
"This [BOOTP relay agent] is mainly intended for diskless routers,
because if a multiuser system with a disk is used as a router, it
can propably run a BOOTP server itself. Alternatively, the
common Unix BOOTP server supports this relay mode [but see
previous sentence]."
Even though Stevens doesn't see a reason for it, I see a few
uses for such relaying -- central management being one, but
then distributing the service and its database all around will
give its benefits too...
> now you know, why i can't sleep all night... !!
Naeh, not a good reason :-)
You don't have nighless nights; you are too far south
for a really good reason like that ;-)
> Thanks in advance
>
> chris
>
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> Christian Lotz Medical Informatics lotz@fh-heilbronn.de
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