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- From: jim@CAI.LSUC.ON.CA (Jim Mercer)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: [Help] Working example of BootpTab file for KA9Q, anyone?
- Message-ID: <m0mQQQQ-0001QsC@lsuc.lsuc.on.ca>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 23:17:13 GMT
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- > The KA9Q documentation does not say much about the Bootptab file. Looking
- > at RFC951 and RFC1048, I tried a couple of permutations, but I still don't
- > get the bootp server to allocate the desired ip numbers to the specified
- > hardware addresses. It works OK for dynamically assigning numbers from a
- > range, but those addresses can disappear when KA9Q is re-started. So, would
- > someone with a working (non-trivial) version of the bootptab file for NOS
- > 910612 please mail me? Thanks in advance...
-
- i discovered the same thing about gateways and such in ka9q's bootp response.
-
- the way we "fix" it is by specifying the gateway in the config.tel file for
- ncsa/cutcp, or whatever stack you are using.
-
- here is a snippet from our autoexec.net and bootptab files:
-
- autoexec.net:
- ---------------
- arp add 142.57.2.255 ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
- arp add 142.57.3.255 ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
-
- bootpd dns 142.57.1.1
- bootpd logfile bootpd.log
- bootpd logscreen on
- bootpd start
- ---------------
-
- bootptab:
- ---------------
- logscreen on
- dns 142.57.1.1
- host pc-aa.sg.lsuc.on.ca Ethernet 00:00:c0:b5:34:2b 142.57.2.2 keith
- host pc-ab.sg.lsuc.on.ca Ethernet 00:00:c0:e9:2a:1c 142.57.2.3 jim
- host placeholdend Ethernet 00:00:d0:00:00:d0 142.57.99.99 none
- start
- ---------------
-
- the bootptab file is loaded into ka9q by the "bootpd start" command, and
- internally it is as if each line in bootptab was typed at the net> prompt
- prepended with a "bootpd ".
-
- our bootptab file contains entries for subnet 142.57.2.0 and 142.57.3.0
-
- 142.57.2.0 is pc's attached to novell, using ethernet, packet drivers and
- talk to an econfig'd novell server.
-
- 142.57.3.0 is pc's connected using Starlan 1Mbit, using the IPXPKT packet
- driver.
-
- the config.tel file lists 142.57.2.1 as the primary gateway, and 142.57.3.1
- as the secondary gateway. (although i think the starlan PC's actually use a
- config.tel which lists them in the other order).
-
- i know it looks like some duplication, but, hey, it works.
-
- if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 8^)
-
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