On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> > All machines are on shared Ethernet. I have sniffed this net with
> > "tcpdump ether host ...". I ran "bootparamd -d". No debug output
> > and only TFTP packets on the net (no BOOTPARAM WHOAMI). I have:
> > 
> > scotty  root=192.87.111.33:/export/NetBSD-1.5/scotty/root \
> >         swap=192.87.111.33:/export/NetBSD-1.5/scotty/swap \
> >         dump=192.87.111.33:/export/NetBSD-1.5/scotty/swap
> 
> You're missing a 'gateway' entry here. The netboot wants to have it,
> even if you don't need it. Add a dummy entry if you wish. add
> something like 'gateway=192.187.x.x:0xffffff00', and you
> should get further.

Yes, but is NetBSD physic :-) If the client is not sending any
bootparam requests, does the bootparam configuration matter?

(I added the gateway entry and it does not make any difference).

	rvdp