> There is a bit of naming confusion between the
> traditional BOOTP (UDP/67) service and Bootparams
> (RPC service).  
> 
> No Sun/Solaris system I'm aware of has ever used
> BOOTP as part of the netboot protocol.  So your
> Ultra2 is probably using RARP/TFTP/rpc.bootparams/NFS
> for netbooting.  DHCP was added as a possibility in
> the Solaris8/OBP3.x timeframe (from memory).

This is true, so I was confused. The OBP uses RARP and TFTP.

I know for a fact that OBP requires at least revision 3.25 or higher in order 
to support DHCP, as in

`boot net -v install dhcp`.

> It is common for someone to have installed the HP
> Jetadmin package for Solaris to enable the bootp
> server that comes as part of it (usually
> unintentionally).  As it uses the same port, you
> cannot run that bootp server and the solaris DHCP
> server simultaneously.

Now that's an interesting tidbit of info!
 
 
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