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Black Box Console Server user guide 238
Booting multiple units
You can boot mutliple unit’s simultaneously using BOOTP; we recommend you alter
the format of your bootptab file entry, as shown in bootptab file entry for multiple units
on page 238. You make one set of parameters in a single area (in this example
‘common’) and point each unit’s entry to this area called ‘common’.
bootptab file
entry for
multiple
units
Notes on the above figure:
1. The example shown is for the Console Server.
2. List each unit at the bottom of the file.
3. So that all units use the same BOOTP information, terminate each unit’s entry
with the same syntax, using the format tc=name (in the example above
tc=common).
common:\
:bf=/usr/js/xxxxxxp.cus:\
:sm=255.255.255.224:\
:hn:\
:dn=xxx.co.uk:\
:ds=192.101.34.211
xxxxxx_1:ht=1:ha=0080ba000024:\
:ip=192.101.34.193:tc=common:
xxxxxx_2:ht=1:ha0080ba000025:\
:ip=192.101.24.194:tc=common:
to=common, means:
use all the information listed
under “common:\”
ethernet addresses
of Console Server
common is the collective
name for the list of
information in this file
xxxxxx_1 is the name of
the first Console Server
xxxxxx_2 is the name of
the second Console
Server