Subject: Re: "bootinfo" record for pmax bootblocks?
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/18/1999 15:14:57
> RARP? I hope thats a typo for `bootp' or `dhcp': the PROMs need
> bootp/dhcp, so there's no plausible reason to RARP.
>
> Also, last I looked, the IP address was available as a PROM
> environment variable, so you could get it that way. But putting it in
> a bootinfo record, if we have one, certainly makes sense.

Unit's Ethernet MAC address seems available with 'enet' environment
variable.  I guess any of IOASIC DECstation holds the variable. 

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology