[Q] gateways and ris

From: bourque_ml_layne <bourque_at_lvs-emh.lvs.loral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:54:45 -0500

Howdy,

Having received the 3.2C media today, I am trying to ris-load the OS to a
machine on another subnet. The route to the client, dancer, given by
'traceroute', is as follows:

 1 alntc6_36 (134.209.36.1) 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms
 2 alntc5_158 (134.209.158.4) 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms
 3 dancer (134.209.112.8) 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms

RIS has been configured such that the bootptab entry looks like,

 dancer:tc=.ris2:ht=ethernet:gw=134.209.36.21:ha=08002BBC5E54:ip=134.209.112.7:

with gw=134.209.36.21 being the ris server ( gw is the gateway entry for
bootp.) The problem comes when I try to boot the client,

>>> boot ez0
     ...
 AUDIT_RETRY

the AUDIT entry goes to infinity and never boots. The daemon.log on the
server never shows a bootp hit. Relevent entries in the inetd.conf/services
are, respectively,

 bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd
 bootp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd

and

 bootps 67/udp bootps # bootp server
 bootpc 68/udp # bootp client

QUESTION: Is the problem related to the gw entry ? I have tried several
gw permutations, namely, the routers shown above, but, alas, without a
successful return value. Does anyone have an idea ?

TWS (Thanks, Will Summarize)

Layne
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