>I have a working network bootable setup using bootp and tftpd on a Debian box
>and everything is working just fine (3com 3c509 with LanWorks).  Unfortunately
>my customer wants the server to run Redhat 7.1 and no bootp RPM is available.
>So I installed 7.1 on a box and downloaded the tftpd and dhcp RPMs and
>installed
>them and they're both working but dhcp isn't supporting bootp.  The client
>machines just sit there and send traffic to the server (seen with
>tcpdump), but
>they aren't booting (non-bootp machines get addresses).  Here's my
>/etc/dhcpd.conf:
>
>server-identifier 192.168.0.254;
>option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>
>subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>     range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
>     host client1 {
>          hardware ethernet 00:10:4C:1C:93:A9;
>          fixed-address 192.168.0.10;
>          filename "/tftpboot/linux.3com";
>}
>}
>
>Are there other files that need to be editted or downloaded to make this work
>(or is there a source for bootp on Redhat 7.1)?

Does Redhat update /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/init.d/ ?
Debian does.

Is "dhcpd" running?
Debian starts deamons at install.

> Debian was so much easier to configure and get working.
That will be a fat charge to your customer 8^)



Kind Regards, Geert Stappers
---------------------
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