> [ problems netbooting the jensen ]

This is more-or-less covered by

	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/netboot.html

Look at the part where it instructs you to set ewa0_protocols.
For you, I guess it would be era0_protocols.

	>>>set era0_protocols bootp

Alternatively, you could boot with:

	>>>b -protocols bootp era0

It looks like you've got a good enough tcpdump command, I would have said

	tcpdump -e udp port bootpc or udp port bootps

but then, it's a busy network here. :)

And BTW, instead of bootpd, you could instead set up dhcpd for fun.  It
speaks bootp just fine. You need something like:

	subnet 192.67.158.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
	}

	host zeta {
		hardware ethernet	8:0:2b:22:71:23;
		fixed-address		192.67.158.233;
		server-name		"theta.teraflop.com";
		filename		"netboot.alpha";
		option root-path	"/usr/ross/zeta";
	}
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Ross Harvey	Avalon Computer Systems, Inc.		  ross@teraflop.com