> "Before starting, it's worth mentioning, that sometimes the
> bootparamd daemon decides not to respond to `whoami' requests.

When this happens, try just restarting rpc.bootparamd.  I've had
netbooting problems go away with nothing more than restarting the
relevant daemons.  (In one case, this was because the daemon had a file
descriptor leak and its file table filled up.  Fuzzy memory says that
was rarpd, but it could have been rpc.bootparamd.)

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