CLI Reference Guide

2-124

NET.CFG Options Reference

Protocol TCPIP Option

Additional Support

Use these parameters and values to conﬁgure your client workstation’s boot

process and path to client workstation conﬁguration ﬁles, as discussed on the

following pages:

NO_BOOTP

Directs your client workstation to bypass any network BOOTP (a standard

protocol that provides TCP/IP conﬁguration information) server and uses

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) to identify a client

workstation’s IP address.

If your network has a BOOTP server that is conﬁgured to supply your client

workstation with its IP address, router address, and subnetwork mask, you

don’t need to conﬁgure this parameter in your NET.CFG ﬁle. See Chapter 2,

“Using a BOOTP Server,” in the TCP/IP Transport for DOS Conﬁguration

Guide for more information.

If you want to bypass a BOOTP server, specify values for the

IP_ADDRESS, IP_ROUTER, and IP_NETMASK parameters in your

NET.CFG ﬁle.

Parameters and Values

NO_BOOTP

PATH TCP_CFG [[ drive: ]path [ ; ... ]]

Syntax no_bootp

Default None

Example To bypass a BOOTP server, you could place the following

lines in your NET.CFG ﬁle:

protocol tcpip

no_bootp

ip_address 129.47.6.84

ip_router 144.52.6.6

ip_netmask 255.255.0.0