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From: luigi@pical2.uucp (Luigi Rizzo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Does bootp run on FreeBSD?
Date: 25 Jan 1994 17:50:09 GMT
Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa (ITALY)
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References: <2hka4n$gh1@scunix2.harvard.edu> <JKH.94Jan20222311@whisker.lotus.ie> <1994Jan24.203610.17060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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In article <1994Jan24.203610.17060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) writes:
>
>I don't think there is a version of bootp for FreeBSD right now (at least
>there isn't in the main source tree).  There is, however, support for
>booting diskless if you have a bootp/tftp server somewhere on your
>network.  The WD80x3 cards are supported at the moment from a dos
>executable or via ROM on the ethernet card.
>
>Adding bootp to the source tree for FreeBSD is something that needs to be
>done.

I have a port from CMU sources that works for us. It is available by
anonymous ftp from pical3.iet.unipi.it (131.114.9.12). I did it on
386BSD, and it compiles fine on FreeBSD (with some warnings, but we have
been using it for a month now).

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
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