[H-GEN] Ethernet troubles

[Bruce Campbell]

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On 22 Dec 1999, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

jasonp> Robert Brockway <robert at ralnet.net> writes:
jasonp> > Hi all.  I recently acquired (for free) 2 Tektronix xp10 Xterminals.  I
jasonp> > set them up on my home coax network (Its always worked ok up until now...)
jasonp> > 
jasonp> > Anyway I gleefully set them up and got the Xserver downloading using tftp.
jasonp> > I've done all this numerous times before and never had the problem
jasonp> > below...
jasonp> 
jasonp> To put it kindly, tftp is slightly broken on Linux boxes.  I happen to
jasonp> know those Xterms will boot via NFS if you ask them nicely enough;

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 .

/. currently has an interesting thread about Linux vs *BSD, and Linux
appears to be losing.

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