Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU!kovar%popvax From: kovar%popvax@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (-David C. Kovar) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: TFTP and BOOTP Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 22:05:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 >>> Now if we could only get >>> the silly things to boot via TFTP or the like, we wouldn't need access to >>> Macs on the Localtalk segment at all! >>Actually, my vote goes for bootp; but anything is better than having to >>visit the localtalk segment (well, anything but ethertalk). >bootp can't boot the boxes, only support information on where to boot from. >Usually, a host uses BOOTP to find out where to boot from and what to boot, >and then uses TFTP to boot. >- -Steve My two GatorBoxes boot via tftp from a Sun 386i. Power failure? Just wait for the 386i to come up and the GatorBoxes are up and running about two minutes later. Very convenient since I manage them from about five miles away and would have to drive in if they needed to be rebooted with a Mac. -David C. Kovar Technical Consultant ARPA: kovar@popvax.harvard.edu Office of Information Technology BITNET: corwin@harvarda.bitnet Harvard University MacNET: DKovar Ma Bell: 617-732-1778 "It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."