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.\" $Id: bootpc.8,v 1.1 1999/03/23 02:57:12 herbert Exp $
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.TH BOOTPC 8 "1999 March 21st" "BOOTPC" "Debian GNU/Linux Manual"
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.RB [ --returniffail ]
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This manual page documents briefly the
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This manual page was written for the
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distribution (but may be used by others), because the original
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program does not have a manual page.
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is a boot protocol client used to grab the machine's IP address, set up DNS
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nameservers and other useful information.
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.BI "--bootfile " file
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Tell the server to use
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to communicate with the server.
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Produce debugging output.
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to communicate with the server.
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as our hardware address rather than what the operating system gives us.
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Terminate the program if a failure occurs. By default
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will ask the user to press a key if the request did not succeed.
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.BI "--waitformore " length
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Wait for more responses when one is received.
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seconds. This is probably only useful for debugging.
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Takes an address and returns useful bits of the name after lookup, this was a
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seperate program, but it is more compact to have both together.
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Tell the server to send back a broadcast reply. This is necessary on
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This manual page was written by Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>,
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system (but may be used by others).
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