News for LynxOS Users Julian Blake, IT-CE LynxOS Net Boot and the Routed Network CERN is in the process of moving from a bridged network to a routed one. The essential characteristic of the routed network is that it consists of a large number of small network segments joined by IP routers.
Routers are more restrictive than bridges.
The most visible sign of a computer moving to the routed network is a change of IP address to one of the form 137.138.xxx.xxx. The machines in the computer centre have moved. Diskless LynxOS machines use net boot regularly. LynxOS development systems with disk may use net boot for software installation. There will be one RARP boot server, suninst0, in the computer centre.