Re: [TCLUG:15677] DHCP/BOOTP and NeXT

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> All this talk about SGIs has inspired me to take another shot at getting my
> pet non-Intel system to run - an old NeXT cube that I picked up at a hamfest
> (a previous instance of the one that's coming up next week, actually) a while
> back.
> 
> Trying to start it always got me a complaint about not being able to find a
> BOOTP server, so I set up DHCP on a Linux box, ran it in debug mode, turned
> on the cube and... got a series of errors.
> 
> BOOTREQUEST from 00:00:0f:00:c0:a0 via eth0 (non-rfc1048)
> No applicable record for BOOTP host 00:00:0f:00:c0:a0 via eth0
> 
> repeated 5 times, then the NeXT gave up and went to the ROM monitor.
> 
> Any suggestions from the DCHP-wise?  Or is there anyone out there who knows
> much about NeXT cubes?
> 

For BootP hosts, you need to statically define a ip address and a filename
to boot from in your dhcpd.conf..

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