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Add a workaround in the EXAMPLE section for booting diskless SPARC/SunOS

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Xkernel machines. Might save people some hair pulling..

Submitted by:	rene@tcja.nl
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Wilko Bulte 2000-12-11 19:10:07 +00:00
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@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ The file to use as boot parameter file instead of
.Bl -tag -width /etc/bootparams -compact
.It /etc/bootparams
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
When netbooting diskless SunOS/Xkernel SPARCstations the booted SunOS kernel
also broadcasts to the all-0 address. The SunOS kernel hangs until it
receives a reply. To accomodate this behaviour add an alias address
that responds to an all-0 broadcast. So, add something like 'ifconfig xl0
192.168.200.254 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 192.168.200.0 alias'
on the relevant network interface on your bootparamd server. The alias
address must of course be free for use.
.Sh BUGS
You may find the syslog loggings to be verbose.
.Sh AUTHORS