Re: bootpd again
Re: bootpd again
- Subject: Re: bootpd again
- From: Matt Mashyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:08:58 -0400
OK, did I mention that I was a lunkhead when it comes to bootp ? If
it's OK to broadcast (probably because the H/W address is in the
reply) then I know where I'm going.
I can't find the code examples you mentioned. The message I got says
to see below but I think it got stripped out along the line somewhere
or Eudora ate it.
You are right about the cost vs benefit. This is for a DSL/Cable
router flash upgrade app. The router is supposed to be the only box
on the network and there are a pile of restrictions on the
instructions/spec. I can't imagine why they designed the hardware
like this. AirPort base stations don't do this, do they ?
Well, thanks for the input from everyone this time. It looks like I
can make it work without a lot of code if I can get the broadcast to
work.
Thanks,
Matt
At 5:15 PM +0100 7/21/03, Quinn wrote:
At 11:33 -0400 21/7/03, Matt Mashyna wrote:
>Last time I asked everyone was at WWDC, so here I go again:
Did you catch my previous reply? I've included a copy at the end of
this email.
>Porting the unix code for it to OT looks like a headache. I'm
running into problems with arp. Bootpd uses arp so that when the
server sends back a udp response it doesn't have to broadcast.
Any clues at all would be much appreciated.
I could probably walk you through the steps necessary to get ARP to
work, but you have to evaluate the cost vs the benefit. IMHO, the
benefit is very small (how much bootp traffic do you expect on the
network?). Moreover, it's not like your server will stand out from
the crowd; plenty of servers just broadcast the response. The cost,
OTOH, is US$195 for a DTS tech support incident (-;
<http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/>
S+E
At 10:47 +0100 9/7/03, Quinn wrote:
I don't know of any official UDP broadcast send/received samples.
...snip...
> } else {
printf("SendThread: Terminated with error %d.\n", err);
}
return noErr;
}
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