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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 1999 23:16:04 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GENERIC build broken 
Message-ID:  <199911030716.XAA03050@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 23:03:07 PST." <199911030703.XAA55313@apollo.backplane.com> 

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I've settled Matt's qualms in private, since this was getting a little 
off track.  Needless to say I'm quite on top of the current set of 
issues, and Matt's just a bit confused about what I'm trying to say.

> :>     great deal of work required to support this we're stuck with BOOTP
> :>     in the kernel. 
> :
> :Er, hello?  It's _already_been_done_, even.  See above inre: netboot.  
> 
>     Good god, you are talking about netboot?  Hello?  Mike, I get the feeling
>     that you've never actually tried to use netboot.  You seem to believe
>     that it is direct replacement for BOOTP.  It isn't even close.  netboot 
>     only works with a very small number of ethernet cards while the BOOTP 
>     code in the kernel works with *all* ethernet cards that the kernel 
>     supports.
> 
>     netboot doesn't work with a single one of my machines.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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