Re: bootp not working

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Petr's mailing list wrote:
> Hello Thiemo,
> 
> maybe I should write what all I did. I tried to set 2 computers as
> point-to-point (server with tftpboot image and indigo). Server is
> running Slackware. 

Have you tried without p-t-p? The Firmware may not like it.

> dhcpd.conf:
> 
> ddns-update-style none;
> #ddns-update-style ad-hoc;  # podle gen2
> group {
>     next-server 192.168.3.1;
>     subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 	allow bootp;
> 	}
>     host indy {
> 	hardware ethernet 08:00:69:07:0d:df;
> 	fixed-address 192.168.3.4;
> 	option root-path "/2indigo2";

root-path points IIRC to an nfs-root (so it remains unused in this case).
You may want to add:

	filename "deb-mips1.img";

[snip]
> from tcpdump:
> 1081591726.289647 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: [no cksum] 
> xid:0x65f6 secs:5 file ""[|bootp] (ttl 255, id 12, len 328)
> 1081591726.290025 192.168.3.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0x65f6 secs:5 Y:192.168.3.4 S:192.168.3.1 ether 8:0:69:7:d:df file
> ""[|bootp] (DF) (ttl 64, id 0, len 328)
> 1081591730.839410 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: [no cksum] 
> xid:0x65f6 secs:10 file ""[|bootp] (ttl 255, id 13, len 328)
> 1081591730.839743 192.168.3.1.bootps > 255.255.255.255.bootpc: 
> xid:0x65f6 secs:10 Y:192.168.3.4 S:192.168.3.1 ether 8:0:69:7:d:df file
> ""[|bootp] (DF) (ttl 64, id 0, len 328)

It can't handle the reply for some reason, and never proceeds to try tftp.


Thiemo