On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:01:01 -0500 (CDT) 
 Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:

 > Well, I've figured out how to enable and/or run bootpd.  The "diskless" man
 > page talks about bootparams, but it looks like it's now /etc/bootptab.
 > I experimented, and it looks like bootpd never gets talked to; a standalone
 > bootpd -d9 says nothing.

No ... you need /etc/bootparams ... and need to run rpc.bootparmd...

The boot block does not use bootp at all...

 > The sun 4/110 now gets as far as
 > 	Booting from tftp server at 192.129.84.17 = C0815411
 > 	(swirly cursor, very fast, then slow)
 > 	Requesting Ethernet address for 0..1.0.52 = 00010034

Requesting _Ethernet address_?  I've never seen that one before...

It looks like the PROM is trying to arp for the tftp server, but
it's getting a bad IP address ...

Basically, the PROM tftps the boot program from whomever answers
the rarp request... It looks like your rarpd is filling in garbage
for the "from" field!

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