Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!henkp From: henkp@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Booting discless over multiple LANs Message-ID: <2385@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 2 Feb 90 14:31:03 GMT References: <3249@plains.UUCP> <5570366@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of CS Lines: 11 Could somebody please explain why it would be difficult for a server to serve clients on more than one ethernet. Do the protocols rely heavily on broadcasts ? Has it to do with synchronization ? Or is it something that could be added quite easily ? -- Henk P. Penning, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University. Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-534106 e-mail : henkp@cs.ruu.nl (uucp to hp4nl!ruuinf!henkp)