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Re: Bootp on linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk)
Sat Aug 12 22:42:01 1995
To: becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, jp107@damtp.cam.ac.uk
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 1995 12:42:01 EDT."
<9508121642.AA09038@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 23:55:29 +0100
From: <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> I don't know of a bootp client that's currently available for Linux.
>
> Dan Ridge, newt@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov, is writing a bootp/DHCP client for
> booting Beowulf. It's not publically available yet, but I expect that it
> will be stable enough for beta test sometime soon. Check for the
> announcement on http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux in about a month.
[ What is Beowulf? ]
Check out ftp.damtp.cam.ac.uk:/pub/linux/bootpc/bootpc.tgz It's not suitable
for booting a system as you need to have the kernel up and running for it to
work, but it is fine for configuring machines with their IP related info.
I use it for running Linux on machines which mainly run DOS via loadlin etc...
If nothing else then the cookie parser may be of interest, to save duplicating
effort.
Let me know if you find any bugs in it.
-- Jon Peatfield
Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, the DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Telephone: +44 1223 3 37852 Mail: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
