Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:56:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hohmuth@innocent.com (Michael Hohmuth) Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com, tege@matematik.su.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netboot Message-ID: <199808260856.KAA02525@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <87hfz010ph.fsf@olymp.sax.de> from "Michael Hohmuth" at Aug 26, 98 12:44:39 pm
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> > > 3) what "nice features" are you referring to except the 100Mbit > > support ? about last 1yr ago we managed to make netboot get all > > of its data from bootpd without having the annoying TFTP > > configuration file -- that was in my opinion a significant > > improvement. > > I don't know what Doug referred to here, but what do you have against > TFTP? it's config info in two places instead of one (because bootp is necessary). And handling config info with bootptab is infinitely easier because it is all in a single file, you can use macros to define classes of machines with similar features, and don't have to learn yet another configuration language. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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