ixp1200 on linux

[Naik, Uday]

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 at intel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:19 AM
To: 'Sundar Ramachandran'; IXP1200 at 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 at cse.uta.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:34 PM
To: IXP1200 at 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.	

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