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> I have been having great luck with DHCP and diskless workstations,   
> however an new issue has arisen.
> 
> I want dhcp to assign (randomly) a boot dir/swap to a given diskless ws   
> without overlap.  Till now I have been sharing a common dir among all of   
> the diskless ws, but the swap also gets shared, which is BAD!!!  I want   
> to at least have swap seperate.
> 
> I realize that I can have bootp do this for a specific ws/arp address,   
> but can dhcp do this without overlap?
> 
> I'm thinking no, based on how dhcp works, but I thought I'd check.

	You might want to consider the following netstart.local
	Brian Chase and myself have used it to share a common
	root filesystem between half a dozeon or so vax systems
	(booting at the same time).

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