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| - Manually assign an IPv4 address (anything other than 192.168.1.1, or anything in the range of IPs used in your local LAN) to the ethernet adapter on your desktop computer. Here I'll use ''10.2.3.4''. | - Manually assign an IPv4 address (anything other than 192.168.1.1, or anything in the range of IPs used in your local LAN) to the ethernet adapter on your desktop computer. Here I'll use ''10.2.3.4''. | ||
| - Set up ''dnsmasq'' on the desktop computer. | - Set up ''dnsmasq'' on the desktop computer. | ||
| - | - The RB450G's bootloader apparently ignores all DHCP options, so you need to set up ''dnsmasq'' to work around it. | + | - The RB450G's bootloader apparently ignores all DHCP options, such as ''tftp-server'' or ''bootp-filename'', normally used to instruct a netboot device how to find its image. So you need to set up ''dnsmasq'' with specific options to work around this quirk. |
| - Copy the file ''openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs-lzma.elf'' from your OpenWRT build tree to a clean directory like ''~/tftproot/''. Rename the file to ''vmlinux''. The RB450B | - Copy the file ''openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs-lzma.elf'' from your OpenWRT build tree to a clean directory like ''~/tftproot/''. Rename the file to ''vmlinux''. The RB450B | ||
| - Run ''sudo dnsmasq -a 10.2.3.4 -z -d -p 0 -F 10.2.3.5 --enable-tftp --tftp-root=~/tftproot/''. | - Run ''sudo dnsmasq -a 10.2.3.4 -z -d -p 0 -F 10.2.3.5 --enable-tftp --tftp-root=~/tftproot/''. | ||
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