The subject is actually not very appropriate....
I should have used "how to find a "jumpstart client" ethernet address?"
The answer was
- Read it on the box"
- STOP-A the machine on poweron, but before boot"
well, thanx... the first answer works when I have the box....which is not
always the case for me unfortunatly.....
and the second works when you actually CAN send a stop-A to the machine... I
sometimes spend
alot of time playing with keyborads, cables and VTs... and that really
sucks....
as for the snoop comand, I found out I need not run it indefinitly... I could
use the -c parameter
to tell it to just find one rarp packet then stop... which is just fine with
me....
Thanx all,
mohamed.
> > Mohamed LRHAZI wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I regularly have to install new sparc machines, often U5 or U10, often
> > > with the same configuration...
> > > so I use the same profile, and the same sysid.cfg on the same boot and
> > > install server...
> > > what takes me most of the time is just the first booting of the new
> > > machines that I have to do
> > > in order to get the ether@ of the install client....
> > > so I am wondering if it's possible to automate that too?
> > >
> > > before trying to write down a script I thought I'd ask you here if you
> > > have any ideas? or a script :)
> > >
> > > my idea is to catch, with a snoop, the RARP packet the new machines send
> > > on their first poweron :
> > >
> > > OLD-BROADCAST -> (broadcast) RARP C Who is 8:0:20:c0:40:79 ?
> > >
> > > then configuer the server accordingly.... sounds easy, huh? just two
> > > questions :
> > >
> > > - is snoop in promiscuous mode too cpu consuming?
> > > - how would you catch this snoop output via a script?
> > > sth like
> > > snoop rarp >> /var/snoop.out&
> > > then another script to keep checking is there is anything in
> > > /var/snoop.out ??
> > >
> > > Thanx alot.
> > > Mohamed
> >
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