SUMMARY: Booting Suns using bootp

From: Brian T. Wightman (wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 10 1995 - 16:28:55 CDT


Well, I received no replies, so I am assuming that no one has done
this.

Brian

Brian T. Wightman wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
Academic Computing, UW-Oshkosh wightman@oshkoshw.bitnet
800 Algoma Blvd, Dempsey Hall 307 http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/wightman
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 Phone: (414) 424-3020

> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 23:32:15 CDT
> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
> From: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
> Subject: Booting Suns using bootp
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know that I could use /etc/ethers and rarp to do this, but I would
> like to set this up to work off the same system as the rest of the
> organization.
>
> I have multiple Sun workstations (sun4c, sun4m running SunOS 4.1.n),
> and would like to have these machines get their IP, gateway,
> nameserver, etc information from a central bootp/dhcp server so that
> if a range of IPs need to be changed, all that is needed (at worst) is
> a reboot of each machine.
>
> Has anyone set up an rc script(s) to do this that would be willing to
> share? It would also be nice (although I am not sure if this would
> even work) to be able to reconfigure machines on the fly, without the
> need to reboot.
>
> Is there any experience doing this out there?
>
> As usual, I will summarize to the list.
>
> Brian
>
> Brian T. Wightman wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu
> Academic Computing, UW-Oshkosh wightman@oshkoshw.bitnet
> 800 Algoma Blvd, Dempsey Hall 307 http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/wightman
> Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 Phone: (414) 424-3020



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