Subject: Re: JavaStation
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Steinar Hamre <steinarh@stud.fim.ntnu.no>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/06/2000 18:25:58
Oliver Fromme <oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> Steinar Hamre wrote:
> > Mine uses RARP/TFTP like a normal SPARC, then JavaOS itself uses
> > DHCP/BOOTP. (ofcourse sun *might* have changed this in newer
> > Javastaton OpenBoot to make it easyer for customers...)
>
> Indeed, it looks like they changed it, for whatever reason.
You could check if there is an OpenBoot-setting you can use to choose
between RARP and DHCP. If so I would like to know.
> (I don't think DHCP is particularly easier to setup than RARP.)
The only thing would be if you already need/have a DHCP-server.
Steinar