Steinar Hamre wrote:

> 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

... or, more importantly, if you have to boot across subnet boundaries.