> i have a running and netbooting Maxine! The core of the problem was not
> the configuration on the Sparc or booting with the wrong parameters... but
> was a small switch on my UIC <-> UDP transciever... thanks for the help i
> got... i never would have thought about that!
>
> Maybe an item for the faq? or a more general part in the netbooting faq /
> manpages?

Sure, it should be.  It's not an issue of DECstations nor NetBSD/pmax,
issue in lack of knowledge instead, about basics on networking.
Some are easily trapped by AUI->UTP or AUI->BNC adaptors which are
practically mandatory equipments to use DECstations in modern networks.

Tohru Nishimura