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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 04:40:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr (Nicolas Souchu)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mbouget@club-internet.fr
Subject:   Re: tftp in bootp process
Message-ID:  <199806040240.EAA08571@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <19980603224748.33844@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> from "Nicolas Souchu" at Jun 3, 98 10:47:29 pm

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> Hi there,
> 
> Is /tftpboot/cfg.X.X.X file really usefull in the bootp process?
> 
> /etc/bootptab already contains rootfs, swapfs and so on...
> 
> A identification/security issue?

tftp is not used anymore in the diskless boot process. Unfortunately the
documentation (especially, the handbook) has not been updated. The
best source of documentation is the netboot(8) manpage.

	cheers
	luigi
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