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There are at least two kinds of BOOTP daemon for UNIX extant.

One kind, the `CMU daemon,' uses a bootptab format with
entries that are similar to termcap entries.  The source for
that one, in versions 2.0 and 2.1, is readily available for
anonymous FTP from many different places.

I am after the other kind -- the kind that uses a single-line
entry for each host to boot, where the entries look like this:

#
# host          htype         haddr                 iaddr        file
#

X-J05-344-0       1     00:00:A7:00:6F:89       129.78.142.221  Xncd19r

I have not been able to find sources anywhere for a UNIX bootpd
which uses this format in the bootptab file.  (One part of
the documentation for the CMU bootpd implies that versions
earlier than 2.0 used a different bootptab format.  It may
be that what I am really after is a pre-2.0 version of the
CMU bootpd.)

You might well ask why I want this, since this kind of BOOTP server
is necessarily less flexible than the other kind.  Well, that's
the format that the bootpd binary distributed with Ultrix uses,
and I have an automatic suite to construct my bootptab file
in that format from other information, and I don't really have
either the time or the inclination to change that to construct
the bootptab file in the other format, and the DEC-supplied
Ultrix bootpd has a bug that I'd like to fix, and could fix
easily enough if I had the source...

Please reply by e-mail; I will summarise if I receive any
positive responses.

-- 
John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
Knox's box is a 286.                 Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks
Knox's box is hard to fix.           To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.