enno@labtam.oz (Enno Davids) (01/05/90)
I am about to add to the abilities of the BOOTP daemon code that we
are using around here. The specific characteristic I am interested in is
to allow the daemon to specify some host other than itself as the server
to boot from when replying to a bootp request.
Specifically, I intend to add a new keyword (e.g. sr) to the bootp database
reader and allow any machine entry to have ... :sr=nn.nn.nn.nn: ... as one
of it's fields. For reference, the code I am using came from uunet's public
area and has since seen modification for SysV.
My questions are:
- has anybody else done this already?
- is 'sr' a reasonable choice (if not, why not).
- other observations or comments.
Enno.
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