>yes, they are in the same subnet
>Problem is, the old tftp-server just went up in flames, and to make a smooth
>transision, the IBM is suposed to take over the old IP for a short period of
>time (in addition to its own IP)
>Markus Noll
>Volkswagen Hannover
Are you sure, that tftp is your Problem? We had to solve sth. similar
(booting of XStations from our RS/6000) and the problem was, that
bootp gives the one address, tftp listens on the other one.
$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=e080863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,\
GROUPRT,64BIT>
inet 172.30.36.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.30.36.255
inet 172.30.36.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.30.36.255
We had to specify the server by naming 172.30.36.2 explicit with the
X-Station-Server configuration.
$ grep xst1 /etc/bootptab
xst1:tc=x_st_mgr.ether130:ha=08005a7a404e:ip:sa=172.30.36.2
So it's neither bootp nor tftp, they have different thoughts about
IP-Addresses.
Maybe this is of interest:
$ oslevel
4.3.2.0
$ lslpp -w \*tftpd
File Fileset Type
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/sbin/tftpd bos.net.tcp.client File
$ lslpp -L bos.net.tcp.client
Fileset Level State Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
bos.net.tcp.client 4.3.2.1 C TCP/IP Client Support
cu... Thomas
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