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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: UDPTalk as a backbone
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.170016.24103@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 17:00:16 GMT
References: <31353@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <3745@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), University of Michigan
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In article <3745@helios.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:
>Milo S. Medin writes:
>>                                                       Now if we could only get
>> the silly things to boot via TFTP or the like, we wouldn't need access to
>> Macs on the Localtalk segment at all!
>
>Actually, my vote goes for bootp; but anything is better than having to
>visit the localtalk segment (well, anything but ethertalk).

bootp can't boot the boxes, only support information on where to boot from.
Usually, a host uses BOOTP to find out where to boot from and what to boot,
and then uses TFTP to boot.

-Steve