>If anyone is interested I'll code this change.

   I'll vote for that.

   The odd thing is, it doesn't even seem to be a broadcast. I can watch
my other NetBSD machines complain on their consoles about bad calls to
bootparam, and they don't happen at the same time. It seems to try every
single IP address one by one, waiting for it to time out before moving on
to the next. If it were broadcasting, the real bootparam server would respond
right away and there wouldn't be a five-minute delay before it finally gets
around to trying .99.

   --James