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[Masataka Ohta <mohta@cc.titech.ac.jp>]

> I have been watching the IP broadcasting discussions and I would like to
> observer that someone was asking about diskless booting on an ATM network.
> This will be controlled by the system vendors and based on the lack of
> documentation and such that sun gives out for diskless booting, I can't
> imagine that SUN will ever support diskless booting over ATM. They didn't even
> support diskless booting over their FDDI adapter. Also I am not aware of any
> add-in ethernet boards for SUN that allow diskless booting.

What if the only network interface of SUNng is ATM?

Or, do you think ATM won't be so successful and Ethernet will be used
forever?

> Are we forgetting to look backwards to see that TCP/IP
> worked before shared medias, and that ATM is taking us back to those days.

The problem is in the current attempt to use ATM as shared media, not
in broadcast.

> Alot of the "broadcast" dependent things today might be media specific
> solutions that need to be redone.

Broadcast is not media specific. NBMA is just an artifact of improper
link layer.

							Masataka Ohta