
Configuring Netboot Client Services
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Setting the Boot Configuration
This section describes how to use the
bconfig
command to configure a netboot
option at the Technician Interface or AN Monitor command-line prompt.
•
For Netboot, you use
bconfig
to specify the network location of a
configuration file or boot image (software image or kernel file) for the
AN/ANH or ARN router to use at startup.
•
For Directed Netboot, you use
bconfig
to specify the IP address of the TFTP
server and the full path name of the boot image and configuration files.
Using the bconfig Command Format
To configure an interface for Netboot, use the following
bconfig
command
format:
bconfig -d
[
image
|
config
]
To configure an interface for Directed Netboot, use the following
bconfig
command format:
bconfig
[
image
|
config
] [
local
|
network
[
<TFTP_host> <TFTP_pathname>
]]
You must issue the
bconfig
command twice: once to specify the location of the
boot image, and again to specify the location of the configuration file.
See
Table 4-1
for a description of the
bconfig
command options.
Table 4-1.
bconfig Command Options
Option
Description
image
Specifies the router’s boot image. The boot image can be the
complete software image file (
an.exe or arn.exe) or the kernel file
(
krnl_an.exe or krnl_arn.exe)
config
Specifies the router’s configuration file
local
Indicates that the specified file (
<image> or <config>) resides in the
router’s local file system
network
Indicates that the specified file (
<image> or <config>) resides on a
remote file system
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