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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: NCSA - Telnet and FTP - BOOTP/rarp
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Date: 9 May 91 22:57:55
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In-Reply-To: mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca's message of Wed, 8 May 1991 22:04:07 GMT
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In article <1991May8.220407.17633@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca> mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:

     When using a packet driver (3c501.com at int 0x60) I couldn't an IP
   address via RARP. (I don't recall if I got the same error though -- I
   believe that it may have just timed out)
     When switching to the internal 3c501 driver, I had no problem at
   all (with both Telnet and ftp). Could this be a limitation of the
   packet driver??

Yes, early 3c501 packet drivers couldn't do RARP or BOOTP.  I don't remember
when I fixed it, you'll have to look in CHANGES.DOC of the current
packet driver release.

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