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From: alan@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: bootpd / arp table update problem
Date: 2 Jun 1995 23:50:10 -0700
Organization: Lockheed M & S Co., Santa Cruz, California
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Message-ID: <3qp0n2$inl@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com>
References: <KCOUSINS.95May26125242@desertoak.awadi.com.au>
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Summary: bootpd update with DHCP
Keywords: bootp dhcp bootpd

In article <KCOUSINS.95May26125242@desertoak.awadi.com.au>,
Kevin Cousins <kcousins@awadi.com.au> wrote:
>
>We have an i486 with NetBSD 1.0 installed. This box is serving bootp
>requests to a dozen or so embedded clients.
>
>It appears that initially everything goes along fine, until one of
>the clients is reset and performs its bootp request again.
>
>At that point, bootpd complains about 'arp failed, exit code 0x100'.

	This is fixed in the latest bootpd and solved this problem
	for me using BSD/OS.

	The latest bootpd is available from:
 	ftp://firewall.mc.com/pub/bootp-2.4.3.tar.Z

	And the patches to add DHCP are found:
	ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/contributed/DHCP.patch

					alan
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Alan Strassberg   alan@lmsc.lockheed.com     (408) 425-6139
Lockheed Martin - Santa Cruz, California.