On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

> I'd been netbooting these machines for ages and couldn't work out what 
> had broken... when I rebooted the sun4c with a kernel that did NOT have
> IPv6 enabled it all just worked again.

I doubt that that's it; I regularly run into the same problems with
bootparamd, but I recently booted a system with ipv6 enabled and it
worked just fine, eventually.

It seems every time I haven't done a netboot for a while, and I start in
on it, I get the bootparamd whoami problem. It's related to addresses,
name services and possibly one's default route; sometimes fucking about
with /etc/hosts and whatnot can fix it.

cjs
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