Subject: NetBSD and BOOTP
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/10/2003 14:58:01
Colleagues:

When trying to netboot NetBSD 1.6.1 on a sun4u, I see the following:

=========================== cut here =============================

ok boot net
Res
LOM event: +0h30m52s host reset
etting ...

~
Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #51612755.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:13:8c:53, Host ID: 83138c53.



Executingilastecommand: boot net
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@c,1  File and args:
14e00 >> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision
>> (autobuild@cs20.apochromatic.org, Mon Apr  7 09:50:28 UTC 2003)
net_open: client addr: 172.16.138.114
net_open: subnet mask: 255.255.255.128
net_open: net gateway: 172.16.138.61
net_open: server addr: 172.16.138.61
net_open: server path: /pxeroot
Using BOOTP protocol: ip address: 172.16.138.114, hostname: Sun2, netmask: 255.255.255.128, gateway: 172.16.138.61
root addr=172.16.138.61 path=/pxeroot
open /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@c,1/netbsd: Unknown error: code 60
: trying netbsd.gz ...

=========================== cut here =============================

QUESTION: what DHCP option should I pass to ofwboot.net in order to
set "root addr" or "server addr" to something different than 172.16.138.61 ?

My current DHCP setup on a Cisco box is:

p dhcp pool EVERYONE
   network 172.16.138.0 255.255.255.128
   default-router 172.16.138.61
   dns-server 172.16.138.120 172.16.138.125
   domain-name sibptus.tomsk.ru
!
ip dhcp pool SUN2
   host 172.16.138.114 255.255.255.128
   hardware-address 0003.ba13.8c53
   client-name Sun2
   option 17 ascii "/pxeroot"
!

So you see that "server path" is DHCP option 17 but which option is
"server addr" ? It does not seem to be documented in INSTALL.txt. 
172.16.138.61 is my router but the NFS server lives on a different
address.

Thanks a lot for any input. 

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/149@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/