Re: netbsd-11 vs. SUNW,qfe; hmeX: device timeout?

On 4/29/26 14:49, John D. Baker wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2026, John D. Baker wrote:
> 
>> Way back in the NetBSD-7.2 era, I installed a SUNW,qfe (quad-fast-ethernet).
> 
> After some faffing around, I netbooted the machine (via le0) and realized
> that the last time the machine was updated was during the netbsd-5 era.
> 
> The faffing around was due to the "/etc/hosts" file on the machine's
> NFS root predating the Great Renumbering I performed on my network, so
> the server's name resolved incorrectly.  Updating it to reality got it
> working properly.
> 


I am curious about the history of "The Great Renumbering".
What was that grand event?

Also, any ideas about SPARC architectures like S7 sun4v?

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