In article <199806160311.XAA18323@zippy.bernstein.com>,
maximum entropy  <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com> wrote:
> msokolov@blackwidow.soml.cwru.edu (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
> >   The way I have produced this kernel has been quite thorny. It seems to
> >me that the people who have designed NetBSD's netbooting mechanism have
> >assumed that everyone is working on a "fake" network with 10.x.x.x-style
> >IPs, no connection to the Internet, and no one besides themselves working
> >on it. Being one of the few remaining people for whom VAXen are an actual
[...]
> In what way did you find NetBSD's netbooting mechanism deficient?

In this case, I think we're running into some documented problems with
this implementation of OSI Level 9 (or 8, depending).