On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:

> If this is just a bootloader - then my gut instinct is that the "hostname: 
> [ipc] len: 3" is indicating a problem.... No hostname? One was set for it 
> in DHCP.

You don't have to care about the hostname line. It's just some code that
never got written. One of the last packets (PLT, Parameter load with
transfer address) sends information about the host that assisted in the
load. Name, hw-address and time. When I wrote the code many years ago
i did it on a Sun/IPC running NetBSD and it had the hostname ipc :-)
I noticed some years ago that the hostname was still hardcoded but didn't
do anything about it. I can't remember any equipment ever using that
information...

-moj

> Thanks for your insight.
> 
> 
>          - Matt