Re: bootp from pminstall

David S. Graves (admin@graves.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 05:40:30 -0400

Well, I've got the latest pminstall/pmconsole from ftp.livingston.com.

I'm using an office router connected to the same ethernet as I am, using the
same subnet on that ethernet.

I've used the pminstall function to give portmasters their ip's before and
it worked without a hitch.

This particular one did NOT have its address, but appears not to have been
sending any BOOTP requests.

I'm running the pminstall on solaris 2.5.1 -- and NOTHING happenings. I get:

Listening for BOOTP request....
about 3 times and the boom -- back to the menu.

On other portmonsters, it sets things up rather quickly.

This is a new office router, btw. (at least, its new, and I'm assuming that
it hasn't spent THAT much time in the box.)

>Couple of reasons it won't work. If you have new pminstall/pmconsole
>and (very) old EPROM, (Rev F?? or before) the PortMaster only requests
>RARPs and the install program only serves BOOTP. You can etherfind or
>whatever to see this. Alternatively, if the PortMaster already has an
>IP it will not ask for one.
>
>What platform are you running pminstall on, and what happens?

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