[H-GEN] Ethernet troubles

[Christopher Preston]

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Bruce Campbell wrote:
> 

> At this point, can I also point out that NFS is slightly broken on Linux
> boxes.  Just like tftp, it is somewhat borked when talking to any
> operating system other than linux.  Not to mention my favourite, Linux
> vt100 != *BSD vt100 == Most OSs vt100 != Windoze vt100 .

Bruce, 

tftp can't be all that broken. I have a Decstation 5000 and a Xyplex
terminal server happily netbooting via tftp.

I can't comment on NFS, although the decstation does do NFS root fs ok.

cheers
chris.

 

-- 
Christopher Preston
Chemistry Department, The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, 4072
Australia

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