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From: ww0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Walter Lloyd Wimer III)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: help with BOOTP load
Message-ID: <19519@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 18:33:32 GMT
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I recently had problems with BOOTP through a cisco gateway to a PC
running PC/TCP.  It seemed that the cisco was ignoring BOOTP requests
whose IP source address was 0.0.0.0.  As soon as I set the PC's IP
address to *any* non-zero address (e.g. 0.0.0.1 worked on our class B
net!), the BOOTP requests made it through the cisco.  (Note that I also
forced the request's IP destination to be the all-ones broadcast
address, 255.255.255.255.)

I was running 8.0(6) at the time.  I've since upgraded to 8.0(13) and
the problem seems to have disappeared.


Walt Wimer
Networking and Communications
Carnegie Mellon University