On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Michael Loftis wrote:

> Apologies if this is offtopic...
> 
> OK I've got ARP/RARP working and all (or so it seems) but the tftp
> transfer never commences, so NetBSD is never loaded.
> 
> Tcpdump shows the following (time/date and such removed, leaving only
> command and response...)
> 
> (FROM SPARC to LINUX BOX) 23 RRQ "0A00000A.SUN4C"
> (FROM LINUX to SPARC) udp 516

Is the image you're trying to boot from named 0A00000A.SUN4C?  This is the
way the Sparc requests its TFTP load.  A hex representation of the IP
address given to it by RARP followed by the architechture type..