[geeks] PXE booting over Cisco?

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Aah. Thanks!

Not that this solved our PXE booting procedure, but this might be handy
when my Xterm and terminal server are getting bootable anytime soon.

We disabled spanning-tree protocol, and suddenly PXE-booting worked like
a charm for us.

/Bjorn

James wrote:
> 
> Bootp is not forwarded through routers since it is a broadcast (0.0.0.0 is
> destination).
> 
> To enable bootp forwarding in Cisco do this......
> 
> In the LAN interface that is connected to the bootp requesting device add
> this line.
> ip helper 1.2.3.4
> 
> I haven't used that command for a long time to it might be a variant of it.
> It might be "ip helper address 1.2.3.4" or something. The IP address is the
> IP address of the server that will dish out bootp.
> 
> Also, as a sanity check, make sure you can actually ping the bootp server
> from the requesting LAN.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Bjorn Ramqvist
> > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:13 AM
> > To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [geeks] PXE booting over Cisco?
> >
> >
> > I don't know if this is a trivial issue, but I've been searching the net
> > over this problem but nothing turns up. We have a problem getting
> > BOOTP/PXE requests flowing through our Cisco Catalysts, has anyone any
> > experience in this?
> >
> > /Bjorn
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