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Matthias Drochner writes:
 >I've played with a "netboot" stage a while ago btw. [...]

Thats very interesting. Simon and I would be grateful  for pointers.

>Is it possible that the console eats
>them up?

Did you use the prom I/O callbacks

 DEC_PROM_INITPROTO      Initialize protocol.
 DEC_PROM_PROTOENABLE    Enable protocol mode.
 DEC_PROM_PROTODISABLE   Disable protocol mode.
 DEC_PROM_GETPKT         Get protocol packet.
 DEC_PROM_PUTPKT         Put protocol packet.


or another API, or a standalone driver? I dont know what the PROM API
acutaly is, but its entirely possible the PROM eats the ARP packet and
`does ARP for you'.  It'd have to, in order to TFTP-load the kernel or
netboot stage.

And again, thanks for letting us know you've been investigating this.