I'm trying to boot a Personal Decstation 5000/33
from a Decsystem 5100 running Ultrix 4.3.

On the 5100 i have the following /etc/bootptab:

#
# /etc/bootptab:  database for bootp server (/usr/etc/bootpd)
#
# Blank lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored.
#
# home directory
 
/usr/local/bootfiles
 
# default bootfile
 
defaultboot
 
# end of first section
 
%%
 
#
# The remainder of this file contains one line per client
# interface with the information shown by the table headings
# below. The host name is also tried as a suffix for the
# bootfile when searching the home directory (that is,
# bootfile.host)
#
# host          htype haddr             iaddr           bootfile
#
 
#hostx          1 02:60:8c:06:35:05     99.44.0.65      ultrix
#hosty          1 02:07:01:00:30:02     99.44.0.65      vms
#hostz          1 02:60:8c:00:77:78     99.44.0.03      lps40
#node1          1 02:60:8c:00:99:47     99.44.0.01      tops20
cherry          1 08:00:2b:33:7c:a8     192.168.10.4    nfsnetbsd

The above is from the bootpd man-page (with a few changes to fit
my equipment) and my 5000/33 is going to
get the name cherry with the IP-adress 192.168.10.4  .
It's connected to my local Ethernet.

When i start bootpd -s on the 5100 an then do a
>>boot 3/tftp 
on the 5000/33, i get the message
?IO: 3/tftp, msg err (0)
from the 5000/33.

I tried the same with a Linux-Box (2.1.26) and the bootpd (1.2.4) from
RedHat 4.0  .
In the debug mode i got the following output on the Linux-Machine
(after doing a >>boot 3/tftp on the 5000/33):

SuperVixen:~# bootpd  -d 8
bootpd: info(6):   bootptab mtime: Sun Mar  2 13:24:10 1997
bootpd: info(6):   reading "/etc/bootptab"
bootpd: info(6):   read 2 entries (1 hosts) from "/etc/bootptab"   
bootpd: info(6):   recvd pkt from IP addr 192.168.10.4
bootpd: info(6):   bootptab mtime: Sun Mar  2 13:24:10 1997
bootpd: info(6):   request from IP addr 192.168.10.4
bootpd: info(6):   found 192.168.10.4 (cherry)
bootpd: info(6):   bootfile="/usr/netboot/nfsnetbsd"
bootpd: info(6):   vendor magic field is 0.0.0.0
bootpd: info(6):   sending reply (with RFC1048 options)    

looks good, i think, but after a time i get 
?IO: 3/tftp, bootp tmout 
on the 5000/33, what seems to be a timeout ...
the in.tftpd is started by inetd (i hope).

Can you see a big mistake in my setup, or do
i need to start some other daemons ?
If anyone managed to get a Decstation to boot
from an Ultrix or Linux server, maybe he/she can tell me some
details.

thanx for any help, Jan.
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Jan Mueller
INET: jan.mueller@tu-harburg.d400.de
INET: 100.64727@germany.net