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From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 09:05:40 +0000
Subject: Re: netboot
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Hi,

Alberto Brealey wrote:
> however, whenever i issue a 'boot net' on the prompt, i crash the switches
> of the campus network... (really shitty by the way, the switches)

Sounds like a real bad bug in the switches' firmware.  Nothing a host can
do should ever crash a switch.

gert

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