> Just to clarify ... it's an educated guess that the Sun PROMs are 
> handling arp requests :-)  I tested this by turning off all the other 
> systems on the network (so they couldn't proxy), rebooting server, 
> rebooting client.  The server sent out an arp request, and got an 
> answer.  The only place the answer could have come from was the booting 
> Sun, which hadn't yet tftp'd boot code (which is NetBSD boot code, 
> anyhow, so it wouldn't have answered).

If I remember reading something a few years ago, this is done so that
you could net boot via a gateway that does not do proxy arp for each
diskless unit. I think. It is a bit vague in my head.

Regards,
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