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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:09:25 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GENERIC build broken
Message-ID:  <99Nov3.160403est.40416@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199911030459.UAA54728@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199911030442.UAA02095@dingo.cdrom.com> <199911030459.UAA54728@apollo.backplane.com>

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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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