Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fAFFBQG14921 for netdev-outgoing; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:11:26 -0800 Received: from pizda.ninka.net (IDENT:root@pizda.ninka.net [216.101.162.242]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAFFBO014917 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:11:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (IDENT:davem@pizda.ninka.net [127.0.0.1]) by pizda.ninka.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02218; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:11:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011115.071105.45157375.davem@redhat.com> To: summer@os2.ami.com.au Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: BOOTP and 2.4.14 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200111150629.fAF6SKg20602@numbat.os2.ami.com.au> References: <200111150629.fAF6SKg20602@numbat.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Set your kernel command line correctly, the format is: HOSTNAME.NIS_DOMAINNAME It has been like this since ancient times :-)