On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:00:17PM +0000, Taras Ciuriak wrote: > An update for those interested in my progress with getting this working. > :-) > > I set up my Linux laptop as a DHCP server. I can confirm it's working > as, quite coincidentally, a colleague popped by my desk to ask what the > next free IP address was. Sure enough, in my log he'd already been > picked up by the new DHCP server...so far so good. Next, I fiddled with > xinetd to get tftpd set up. It's the only service I configured to run > under xinetd and xinetd duly informs me now that it actually has one > service configured to run. > > Unfortunately, still, when I "boot net", I get the message "Timeout > waiting for ARP/RARP packet".
DHCP != RARP. Install the RARP server (rarpd); create/edit /etc/ethers, and have fun. I assume you have RTFM on how to name your tftp files for booting. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For the next hour, WE will control all that you see and hear.
