On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, der Mouse wrote:

> > However, the RARP packet should be exactly the same the first and
> > second times, anyway.  Why would the second RARP packet be smaller?
> > The first one works.
> 
> Because the first one comes from the PROM, the second one from netboot,
> is what I was thinking.

Well, there isn't a lot of room for variation in the format of a
RARP packet. :-)

> But since I sent my note, someone (you?)
> remarked something about a protocol analyzer confirming that no RARP
> packet was getting sent, and such a box is just about the last thing
> that's going to be suffering from the disease I described.

It was me, but the `protocol analyser' was tcpdump on the machine the
Sun is booting from.

cjs

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