I've settled Matt's qualms in private, since this was getting a little
off track. Needless to say I'm quite on top of the current set of
issues, and Matt's just a bit confused about what I'm trying to say.
> :> great deal of work required to support this we're stuck with BOOTP
> :> in the kernel.
> :
> :Er, hello? It's _already_been_done_, even. See above inre: netboot.
>
> Good god, you are talking about netboot? Hello? Mike, I get the feeling
> that you've never actually tried to use netboot. You seem to believe
> that it is direct replacement for BOOTP. It isn't even close. netboot
> only works with a very small number of ethernet cards while the BOOTP
> code in the kernel works with *all* ethernet cards that the kernel
> supports.
>
> netboot doesn't work with a single one of my machines.
>
> -Matt
>
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