Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!cgch!whkr From: whkr@ciba-geigy.ch (Hans Kraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: 300/400 boot protocoll Message-ID: <1991Mar22.100807.24893@ciba-geigy.ch> Date: 22 Mar 91 10:08:07 GMT Sender: news@ciba-geigy.ch (USENET News Agent) Organization: Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: cgcha As we are setting up a small test network we need to know, how a HP9000/3xx (4xx) diskless workstation boots, especially how does it get its internet address. Is its first action to ask on the lan, if some server knows the workstations internet address? Or does it use ethernet addresses until....? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Hans Kraft --------------------------------------------------------- He is not too bad until you ask him to think. (S. Holmes)