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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Missing ARP reply in 9load
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:13:47 -0400
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9load is single threaded; responding to
ARP queries would be fairly difficult.
I did think we sent out an ARP broadcast
as soon as we got our BOOTP address though,
to initialize the caches of anyone who was
listening.