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From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Does bootp run on FreeBSD?
Date: 27 Jan 1994 08:47:32 +0100
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <2i2mb8$jss@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes:

>David M. Pfarrer (pfarrer@isr.harvard.edu) wrote:

>: Subject line says it all -- anyone have any experience running bootp
>: under FreeBSD? Thanks for any info.           

>I have been running the CMU version of Bootp for some time.  

I just could not get it to answer properly, everytime a client requests
bootp to run, it says on the console something like "bad hardware address".

I suspect my bootptab entries, but i'm shure the format is correct.

Any clues ?

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
   I am really getting tired of people wasting my time... with trivia... (JMJr)