[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <7OCdnRWFCaepfEfTnZ2dnUVZ_vydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 

> > Bringing the network up is part of booting, so the statement makes no
> > sense.
> >
> 
> Not quite!  Bringing up the network is usually done fairly late in the 
> start up.  The exception is booting over the network.  If you are NOT
> doing a network boot, you need not start the network at all!
> 
> I'll be the first to admit that most systems ARE networked these days 
> but most is not the same as "all"!

These days, one can have a VMS cluster over IP, so IP is started 
relatively early during boot.