From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200101300639.BAA04669@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Some questions...
In-Reply-To: <200101300350.WAA16390@smtp2.fas.harvard.edu>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:39:19 -0500
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In article <200101300350.WAA16390@smtp2.fas.harvard.edu> you write:
>You'd have to put the kernel on a floppy
>disk and set fs= and auth= in plan9.ini.
>It only consults the IP address entries when
>ipconfig can't find them from DHCP.

Thanks for the note, Russ.  That aspect of things is documented in
plan9.ini(8); I was confused about a more basic issue: given a network
sans a DHCP server, how does a ``diskless'' machine figure out it's own
IP address?

As usual, I'm guilty of not reading enough before posting.  :-)  From
reading in the 9fans archives, it would seem that one can specify
ipconfig style arguments on the bootargs line when selecting il in
plan9.ini.  That solves that problem, and I can't wait to try it out on
the Plan 9 network when I get into the office tomorrow....

Hmmm....  I seem to be getting confused a lot.  Guilliani must be
putting something in the water.  ;-)

	- Dan C.