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From: ANNABLE@THORIN.HSCSA.UTEXAS.EDU (conni annable)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: help with BOOTP load
Message-ID: <19487@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 02:12:37 GMT
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I am trying to get a terminal server to boot using bootp and tftp through a 
cisco router. The server boots fine when it is on the same ethernet as the 
load host. It also boots fine when it is on the other ethernet but is told 
the IP address of the load host - it ARPs for the host, the cisco answers 
'that's me' and tftp is then used for the load.

The router has been told it has a helper address for ethernet 2 - which is 
the load host residing on ethernet 0. This helper address appears in a show 
config, but not in a show interface ethernet 2. I mention this because the 
cisco documentation shows an example of a show interface that indicates a 
helper address - that example is for a serial interface however. Should I 
be able to see the helper address with show interface?

If I use debug packet-events, the cisco indicates:

BOOTP: opcode 1 from host 0.0.0.0 on Ethernet2, 0 secs, 0 hops

I have put my lanalyzer on that ethernet - the cisco never responds to the
server. 

Has anyone out there done this? Can you see what I am doing wrong?



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