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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt From: wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Subject: [386bsd] Is there a Reverse ARP/bootp client? Message-ID: <1992Oct29.230728.19279@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 23:07:28 GMT I am creating a boot floppy here at work so that I can use our diskless '486 boxes as Unix machines, by NFS mounting everything but / from a server. However, at the moment each floppy must have the IP address hardcoded in /etc/rc where I ifconfig the Ethernet interface. I'd like to build a generic floppy with no hardcoded IP address. Does anybody have (or know where there is) source for a Reverse ARP or bootp client that will determine its IP address given it knows its Ethernet address? I would be happy with either code that goes in the kernel, and is called at boot time, or a user-level program that can be run at /etc/rc time, e.g ifconfig ec0 `rarp` # Set our IP address Many thanks in advance for any information. Warren Toomey