When we first ported Linux to the IXP1200, we booted it directly from flash without cygmon. This was fairly restrictive specially since we were making changes all the time to the kernel. Also it limits what you can have on your ramdisk. So we got away from it. But it is possible if that's what you want. You will need to do some work to get there. Uday. -----Original Message----- From: Sprajc, Barry [mailto:barry.sprajc@intel.com] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:19 AM To: 'Sundar Ramachandran'; IXP1200@CS.Princeton.EDU Subject: RE: ixp1200 on linux To the best of my current knowledge, only TFTP is supported by Cygmon as installed in your flash - it probably could support PPP or SLIP, but I don't know for sure, as Cygmon would have to be rebuilt to support a different protocols. One way you could use TFFP is to put a linux box with a TFTP server on your local subnet, as I think TFTP is for local subnets anyways. I don't think it would be accessable by anyone on the other side of your gateway If your school policy is not not run TFTP on the network at all, you could add a second network card to the box with the TFTP server and assign it a private network address like 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x, one which isn't used on campus network - and connect them with a cross over cable -- this is what I have done here at work, so I don't have to bother the network admins for a static IP address for the Eval card /barry -----Original Message----- From: Sundar Ramachandran [mailto:ramachan@cse.uta.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:34 PM To: IXP1200@CS.Princeton.EDU Subject: ixp1200 on linux Hi, I have the ixp toolchain along with the linux kernel image loaded onto the ixp1200 evaluation processor. The one question I had was ,can we use anything other than tftpd to load this onto the eval kit? Does it compulsorily have to be tftpd, since I'm using minicom instead of NT hyperterminal to do this? The problem is that we have some restrictions on campus to use tftp services, so I need alternatives. I'll be happy if someone could give me some specifics, would appreciate it. Thanks, Sundar. ============================================================================ ==== "The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. " - James Cabell Sundar Ramachandran PHONE:(817)8015233 Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., E-MAIL: ramachan@acm.org UTA, Arlington, TX 76019. ============================================================================ ====