Nortel Networks 14.2 manual Chapter Setting Up a Unix Boot Server, Topic

Chapter 2

Setting Up a UNIX Boot Server

To support network booting, you need to set up a UNIX workstation on the network to run BootP and TFTP. This chapter describes what you need to do at a UNIX workstation to prepare AN/ANH and ARN routers for booting over the network.

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Setting Up a BootP Server

Setting Up a TFTP Server

What to Do Next

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When AN/ANH and ARN routers boot over the network, they obtain one or more of its startup files from a UNIX server. When AN/ANH and ARN routers use EZ-Install or Netboot, the server supplies startup file path names using BootP. The routers then retrieve the files using TFTP. When AN/ANH and ARN routers use Directed Netboot, they already know the path names of the files they need and retrieve the files directly from the server using TFTP.

Complete the appropriate sections of this chapter for the startup option you are configuring:

	To Configure This Startup Option	Complete These Sections
	EZ-Install	• Setting Up a BootP Server
		• Setting Up a TFTP Server
	Netboot	• Setting Up a BootP Server
		• Setting Up a TFTP Server
	Directed Netboot	• Setting Up a TFTP Server
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