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Re: Need a public tftp and/or bootp server



(<sigh>, *please* <deleted> don't Cc me on list-mail, I read all the
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 unless <deleted> otherwise stated)

On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:31:53 EST, "Michael J. Saletnik" writes:
>On November 5, 2001 at 21:35, Robert Waldner wrote:
> > TFTP runs over IP, and thus it's perfectly possible to build publicly 
> >  accessible TFTP-servers.
>
>Doesn't Sun's OpenBoot PROM code only attempt to tftp the boot loader
>from the same machine which answers the RARP request?

This is true for my SS1[0]. But that's also just Sun being too lazy to 
 implement a more complete client, and has nothing to do with the 
 protocol per se.

0: the ancient OpenBoot in my

cheers,
&rw
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