On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 05:56 PM 3/17/99 -0800, Brian D Chase wrote:

> >Then how come netbooting my VAXstations with bootparamd works fine for
> >me?  I've always setup my bootservers with 10.x.y.z/255.255.255.0 as my
> >bootserver IP/netmask pair.  I'm not saying that it *should* work in light
> >of your statements... but it does work.
> 
> Because perhaps someone has hacked the IP code on your boot server? What
> OS/Version is it running? I believe both Linux and *BSD put the IP input
> code in the same directory, do a find on ip_input.c and see how it computes
> the broadcast address.
> [...]


I spoke incorrectly.  My netmask on my NetBSD bootserver is in fact
255.0.0.0.  

> P.S. Brian, I found a 'boot-DEQNA.mopformat' somewhere, was that yours? I'm
> using it to net boot my uVax II.

Nope, the Q-bus DEQNA/DELQA bootloader is the fine work of Roar Thronfs
Current version can be found at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD/DEQNA/ 

-brian.
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