[U-Boot-Users] Acquring an IP Address from the Dhcp Server.
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sat Dec 1 00:04:23 CET 2007
In message <8FCC6A94CA3DF74CB89E1044DBFB0BF806BFF9 at NOIDA-MAIL2.bbnet.ad> you wrote:
>
> In these cases, it overwrites the serverip address as well, updating it to
> that of the Dhcp server. Can you commend why DHCP will alter the serverip
> address? It seems odd to me that DHCP will tell me which host that I want to
> TFTP the images from.
That's not odd at all. You can set the address of the TFTP server to
use using the "next-server" option in your dhcpd configuration file.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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