SUMMARY: Forwarding Bootp Requests Across Subnets

From: iwallace (iwallace@bcoe.bm)
Date: Mon Dec 22 1997 - 07:38:55 CST


Thanks to all who responded! Most recommended that you configure your routers
to forward along the requests (Cisco routers have an ip-helper address for
BOOTP, DHCP). Others suggested getting the CMU Bootp software and compiling
it - it has a little program called bootpgw that will forward along bootp
requests to a bootp server on a different subnet.

I had to do that latter of the two (bootpgw) b/c I have a multihomed host that
acts as the router (I don't think I made that clear in the original post).

Thanks to ...
Frank Cusack <fcusack@voicenet.com>
Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com>
bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)
"Tony C. Wu" <tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw>
"Matthew Stier" <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Marcos Assis Silva <assis@uel.br>
Brian Sherwood <sherwood@alux4.micro.lucent.com>
Chuck Kenyon <chuck@npiww.com>
Ron Nguyen <ronguye@axs2k.net>

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