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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
- Subject: Re: Information about BOOTP
- Summary: How do I set up a BOOTP server?
- Message-ID: <dmurdoch.374.726182604@mast.queensu.ca>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:23:25 GMT
- References: <dmurdoch.371.725642953@mast.queensu.ca>
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- In article <dmurdoch.371.725642953@mast.queensu.ca> I asked:
- >I'm looking for information about setting up a BOOTP server.
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- Several people responded; thanks very much. For example, Stephane
- Bortzmeyer (bortz@cnam.cnam.fr) said:
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- The RFC are pretty readable:
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- 1084 Reynolds, J.K. BOOTP vendor information extensions. 1988 December;
- 1048 Prindeville, P.A. BOOTP vendor information extensions. 1988 February;
- 951 Croft, W.J.; Gilmore, J. Bootstrap Protocol. 1985 September; 12 p.
- 906 Finlayson, R. Bootstrap loading using TFTP. 1984 June; 4 p. (Format:
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- A bootp server with RFC 1084 extensions is in ftp.uu.net:
-
- Location: /networking/applic
- FILE -rw-r--r-- 61759 Nov 2 1990 bootp.2.1.tar.Z
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- This is for a server to run on a Unix host; a couple of people asked me for
- information about hosts on other platforms (DOS and VAX VMS), but I didn't
- hear of any.
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- Thanks again for all the help.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-