[KLUG Members] Bootp, dhcp, and New York

[Nikolas Reist]

Try giving it a default internal route through the dhcp client
configuration on the server?  That sounds like it would make sense to
me.  But I am a newbie so I could be wrong.  :)

GL

Nik  

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:44, Adam Bultman wrote:
> Good Afternoon, all.
> 
> I have a question for y'all.  I'm installing (or attempting to) linux on 
> an old SGI machine I picked up for cheap.  Every document I find says that 
> I need to netboot it.  That's fine.
> 
> I've installed bootpd, dhcpd, and atftp on my linux (gentoo) system, and 
> have made sure that dhcpd and atftp work.  As for bootpd, I don't really 
> know how to set that up, but since the docs don't really mention running 
> that daemon, I'm not worried.
> 
> I've set up things with the tftp server ( I can successfully fetch files 
> from it) and with the dhcp server (it will assign an address, I believe, 
> and then tell you to tftp the files).  It is bootp enabled.
> 
> So, when I fire up the SGI, enter the command monitor, and try to tell it 
> to
> 
> >> bootp(): root=/dev/ram0
> 
> I watch it (via ethereal and tcpdump) try to search for a bootp server. 
> But, it goes and does crap like looking for stuff from cnc.net (philly), 
> xo.net (??) and a DSL line from New York.  
> 
> So, if it's a bootp server, why on earth is my SGI talking bootp out my 
> router?  It doesn't have a default route, it shouldn't talk to the outside 
> world, yes?
> 
> So, the questions here are:  
> 1. Why would my SGI fetch crap from the 'net if it doesn't have a route, 
> 2. Is there anything I need to change on my dhcp server to get the SGI to 
> notice it (I don't see dhcp traffic at all, only bootp).
> 
> The env variables on the SGI aren't plentiful (I cleared them) but I 
> still'd like to know what it's doing talking to the outside world... (Even 
> if I set dlserver to my bootp/dhcp server it talks  outside).
> 
> Adam