Changing Client IP Address

[Richard Siggs]

In article <8715 at brazos.Rice.edu>, woodb!tkevans at cs.umd.edu writes:
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|>Now, however, we have a shiny new domain name and Class B IP address.  As
|>a result, I need to change all the IP addresses we have been using.
|>
|>From TFM, it appears the client looks for a file /tftpboot named with the
|>hex equivalent of its IP address, a file which is symbolically linked to
|>/tftpboot/boot.sun3.  Could I just rename this file to the hex equivalent
|>of its new IP address?  Will the client boot?  If so, are there any other
|>fixes needed to properly implement this workaround?  Thanks.

As far as I know (I've done it many times), you can just rename the file
in tftpboot to the new IP address in hex, however, be careful about
permissions on files in /tftpboot, as tftp is pretty dumb. I've also found
that the client needs its server's IP number in its /etc/hosts file (even
if it's YP served, as YP comes up after such things as mounting root
disks...)

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