Ahh!  That is excellent information!  I too was wondering what the delay was
in the boot process, as I use netbooting quite often.  Thanks!

Rick Sustek
Cisco Systems


Miod Vallat wrote:

> >    One of the keys to netbooting NetBSD on a Sun-3 is patience. RARPing and
> > tftp'ing the bootstrap loader is fast enough, but then the bootstrap seems
> > to scan the local network looking for a bootparam server. Since I have an
> > entire class C, and the bootparam server is at .99, the process takes
> > several minutes. I haven't found anything in the documentation about this,
> > or how to speed it up.
> Then I can consider myself lucky as the rarp/tftp/bootparam server is .1.
> Now that you mention it, there used to be a much longer delay when the
> bootparam server was .5 (with .2 and .3 switched off)
>
> --
>   Miod Vallat
>   miodrag@ifrance.com