Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:34:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken Message-ID: <199911030534.VAA54968@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199911030442.UAA02095@dingo.cdrom.com> <199911030459.UAA54728@apollo.backplane.com> <99Nov3.160403est.40416@border.alcanet.com.au>
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:> Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS
:> root and swap.
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:Sun uses reverse ARP to do this. Reverse ARP _is_ a hack, but it _is_
:an alternative to BOOTP.
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:Peter
Mmm. Well, I suppose, but it isn't going to be any less complex because
rarp does not support all the require features natively. BOOTP is a very
simple protocol. You can't get much simpler and the kernel root fs
portion of the implementation is going to wind up being the same anyway.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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