setnetbootinfo —
configure Alpha network bootstrap program
  
    | /usr/mdec/setnetbootinfo | [ -vf] [-ooutfile] [-aether-address |-hether-host] infile | 
  
    | /usr/mdec/setnetbootinfo | [ -v]-u-ooutfile
      infile | 
The setnetbootinfo utility configures the
  NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program so that it can
  be used to bootstrap systems with old firmware revisions.
The NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program
    needs to have the ethernet address of the interface being used to boot the
    system available when querying other hosts on the network for bootstrapping
    information. Alpha systems with old firmware revisions provide no way for
    network bootstrap programs to determine the ethernet address of the
    interface that they are booting from, and so the
    NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program must find
    that information in another way. (Newer firmware revisions include the
    ethernet address in the name of the device that is being booted from.) The
    setnetbootinfo utility encodes an ethernet address
    (and other information) directly into the network bootstrap program.
The options recognized by setnetbootinfo
    are as follows:
  - -aether-address
- Encode the given ethernet address into the network bootstrap program.
      (This option and the -hoption are mutually
      exclusive.)
- -f
- Force the address information being encoded in the bootstrap program to be
      used regardless of whether or not the bootstrap program can get address
      information from the booting system's firmware.
- -hether-host
- Encode the ethernet address of the specified host into the network
      bootstrap program. The host's name is translated to an ethernet address
      using the
      ether_hostton(3)
      function. (This option and the -aoption are
      mutually exclusive.)
- -ooutfile
- Output the resulting bootstrap program into the file named by
      outfile, replacing it if it already exists. If the
      -oflag is not specified, the output file name
      will be the name of the input bootstrap program concatenated with a period
      and the digits of the ethernet address being encoded. For instance, if the
      input file is named /usr/mdec/netboot and is being
      configured to encode the ethernet address08:00:2b:bd:5d:fd, then the default output file
      name would be /usr/mdec/netboot.08002bbd5dfd. It
      is safe to set the output file name to be the same as the input file name;
      the input file is read in its entirety before the output file is
    modified.
- -u
- Remove configuration information from the specified network bootstrap
      program. If this option is used, an output file name must be specified
      with the -ooption, and neither the-aor the-hoptions may
      be specified.
- -v
- Verbose mode.
  - /usr/mdec/netboot
- network bootstrap program
The NetBSD/alphasetnetbootinfo
  command first appeared in NetBSD 1.3.
The setnetbootinfo utility was written by Chris
  Demetriou.