From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 26 04:02:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA11845 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 04:02:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA11840 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 04:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA02525; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:56:38 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199808260856.KAA02525@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Netboot To: hohmuth@innocent.com (Michael Hohmuth) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:56:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com, tege@matematik.su.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <87hfz010ph.fsf@olymp.sax.de> from "Michael Hohmuth" at Aug 26, 98 12:44:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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