> >If anyone is interested I'll code this change.
> 
>    I'll vote for that.
Damned. I knew I shouldn't make this proposal (-:

>    The odd thing is, it doesn't even seem to be a broadcast. I can watch
> my other NetBSD machines complain on their consoles about bad calls to
> bootparam, and they don't happen at the same time. It seems to try every
> single IP address one by one, waiting for it to time out before moving on
> to the next. If it were broadcasting, the real bootparam server would respond
> right away and there wouldn't be a five-minute delay before it finally gets
> around to trying .99.
Well, I'll have a closer look and experiment, and I'll post more information
here when available.

Miod