booting rtems over the network?

[Jack Cawkwell]

Also,

ifconfig on the server ifconfig returns:

[root at claude xinetd.d]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:0F:54:E3  
          inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:212940 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1800 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

The only traffic since boot up has been for the bootpd server,
The worrying part is the large number of dropped packets,
but I am putting that down to the client broadcasting
enthusiastically.