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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Subject: [9fans] boot via aan from fileserver?
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:49:44 +0100
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I'm currently booting diskless machines at home
(using boot flop with plan9.ini and kernel(s))
over cable modem from fs in the office
(via trampoline tcp <-> il on the cpu server)
Unfortunately, the connection occasionally breaks
giving the i/o on hangup channel error.
Could something like aan be used to make it more reliable?
I know the (non-fossil fake worm) fs itself does not speak aan,
but the trampoline is there already anyway.

I did reread nemo's message of 7 May 2003 ("update4d redirfs on sources")
in which he describes the use of redirfs to fall back from fs to kfs.
I assume I could try to use something like that,
but I would prefer to keep the machines diskless
to reduce the number of file servers to keep up to date.

Any ideas?
Axel.