Black Box 24 port, 16 port Booting multiple units, Bootptab file entry for multiple units, 238

Booting multiple units

You can boot mutliple unit’s simultaneously using BOOTP; we recommend you alter the format of your bootptab file entry, as shown in bootptab file entry for multiple units on page 238. You make one set of parameters in a single area (in this example ‘common’) and point each unit’s entry to this area called ‘common’.

bootptab file entry for multiple units

common is the collective

name for the list of common:\ information in this file

:bf=/usr/js/xxxxxxp.cus:\

:sm=255.255.255.224:\

:hn:\

:dn=xxx.co.uk:\

:ds=192.101.34.211

xxxxxx_1 is the name of	xxxxxx_1:ht=1:ha=0080ba000024:\
the first Console Server
	:ip=192.101.34.193:tc=common:
xxxxxx_2 is the name of
the second Console	xxxxxx_2:ht=1:ha0080ba000025:\
Server	:ip=192.101.24.194:tc=common:

ethernet addresses of Console Server

to=common, means:

use all the information listed under “common:\”

Notes on the above figure:

1.The example shown is for the Console Server.

2.List each unit at the bottom of the file.

3.So that all units use the same BOOTP information, terminate each unit’s entry with the same syntax, using the format tc=name (in the example above tc=common).

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