On Wed, August 24, 2005 10:38 am, Volker Kuhlmann said: >> SuSE can use many different protocols, more than you'd normally imagine. >> IIRC it can use ftp, http, smb, nfs and something else very obscure. > > SLP, service (server?) location protocol. *Mightily* handy I've been > told, works a bit like DHCP. Boot the mini install CD (about 65MB I > think), select SLP, the box broadcasts a "I'm here, give me > my installation files", and from somewhere in the networked universe > comes the response "no problem, have the whole hog". Setting up an SLP > server was trivial, I really must have a play with it. > Aah... so SuSE has *finally* caught up with debian then (:
Ducks. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
