Re: Netbooting

Hi,

tcpdump kicked me in the right direction, or should I say directory :-)

Finally I found that I was missing the 'p' in the /tftpboot directoryname and now the machine finds the lif33 and boots.

Kind of a stupid error....

best regards
Jorma

On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:10:39 -0400
Hugo Villeneuve <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:57:05PM -0400, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does anybody have any good directions or points to get me going? (I don't mind reading up, try stuff - but I need ideas).
> > 
> > tcpdump (;
> > 
> 
> Yes, using tcpdump is a requirement to setup net booting.
> 
> On your NFS/tftp/DHCP/bootp/bootparam/rarp/etc server, you can run a
> command like this to help you debug your problem:
> 
> tcpdump -v -n -e -i qe1 ether host 08:00:2b:28:f6:82
> 
> Of course qe1 and the mac address should be changed but this way
> you filter exactly what's happening between the HP computer and
> your server. You don't have all the other junk.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hugo Villeneuve <[email protected]>
> http://EINTR.net/ 
> 


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