Handbook 19.7 Diskless Operation: bug in configuring swap text

[Ceri Davies]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:00:34PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Section "19.7.1.6 Configuring Swap", on diskless operation, has a mistake,
> that drove me almost crazy. It says there:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /etc/bootptab would use the following syntax instead:
> 
> T128="192.168.4.4:/netswapvolume/netswap":T129=64000
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The T129 here is totally wrong, because this T129 is a syntax error and 
> stops
> bootpd from working properly!
> 
> The syntax for Tn tag is something like:
>    n is an RFC1084 vendor field tag number [...] The generic data may be
>    represented as either a stream of hexadecimal numbers or as a quoted 
>    string
>    of ASCII characters.
> So the second line above should be replaced by:
> 
> T128="192.168.4.4:/netswapvolume/netswap":T129=0000fa00

Rob, would an equivalent be:

	T128="192.168.4.4:/netswapvolume/netswap":T129="64000"

I think that would be clearer for most users.

Ceri
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