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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <42gcnb$pte@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <42a4be$bg4@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu> <42cor9$t8k@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <42fqs4$pqd@nic.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov 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. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939