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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbooting NetBSD/sun3
Date: 5 Sep 1995 02:30:03 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <42fqs4$pqd@nic.lth.se>,
Peter Svensson <petersv@piau.df.lth.se> wrote:

>Linux has rarp as a part of the kernel drivers.

Uhhhh ... what exactly do you mean?  If a Sun workstation broadcasts
a reverse-ARP request, and there are N Linux systems on the network,
anyone of them could respond?  Given the nature of Sun PROMs, if those
are indeed the semantics, I'd call that a BUG.

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