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