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SubjectRe: PATCH: boot-time DHCP
Hi!

> > I was surprised to find that the plug-and-play network configuration
> > supports BOOTP and RARP(?!) but not DHCP. So I added it myself.
>
> I think the reason is that the kernel bootp code is really obsolete.
> It will probably go the same way as kernel rarpd sometime in the
> future..

Please don't. It is important for diskless clients. On sun4, it is
easy to load kernel (their bios can do that) but I don't think same is
possible with initrd.

Pavel
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