NET.CFG Options Reference

Protocol TCPIP Option

Additional Support

Use these parameters and values to configure your client workstation’s boot process and path to client workstation configuration files, as discussed on the following pages:

Parameters and Values

NO_BOOTP

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NO_BOOTP

Directs your client workstation to bypass any network BOOTP (a standard protocol that provides TCP/IP configuration information) server and uses Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) to identify a client workstation’s IP address.

If your network has a BOOTP server that is configured to supply your client workstation with its IP address, router address, and subnetwork mask, you don’t need to configure this parameter in your NET.CFG file. See Chapter 2, “Using a BOOTP Server,” in the TCP/IP Transport for DOS Configuration Guide for more information.

If you want to bypass a BOOTP server, specify values for the

IP_ADDRESS, IP_ROUTER, and IP_NETMASK parameters in your NET.CFG file.

Syntax

no_bootp

 

 

Default

None

 

 

Example

To bypass a BOOTP server, you could place the following

 

lines in your NET.CFG file:

 

protocol tcpip

 

no_bootp

 

ip_address 129.47.6.84

 

ip_router 144.52.6.6

 

ip_netmask 255.255.0.0

 

 

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