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From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken
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On 1999-Nov-03 15:59:38 +1100, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>:Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too.
>
>    Huh?  And replace it with what?  BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS
>    root and swap.

Sun uses reverse ARP to do this.  Reverse ARP _is_ a hack, but it _is_
an alternative to BOOTP.

Peter


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