Gilbert Carl Herschberger II wrote:
>
> I am looking forward to using GRUB to boot JOS from a hard drive.
>
> Meanwhile, I haven't given up booting my JOS machine across the network
> >from my Linux server. My JOS machine doesn't "connect" with BOOTP.
>
> Question: Is a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) service required
> for BOOTP to work?
>
> My book on TCP/IP hints that it might be.
The Stevens reads on page 222:
"BOOTP uses UDP and is intended as an alternative to RARP for bootstrapping a
diskless system to find its IP address."
> Question: Does my Linux server run a RARP service automatically?
I don't know your GNU/Linux server.
> If I had to guess, I would say that Linux doesn't run RARP unless you
> configure it that way.
On the 2.0 you'll even have to tell the kernel to do it.
Regards, Mark#
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