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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:47:27 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netboot problem: RPC timeout for server 0x0
Message-ID:  <199803120447.FAA12574@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199803112120.NAA15073@crab.whistle.com> from "Doug Ambrisko" at Mar 11, 98 01:20:35 pm

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> I'm having trouble with the netboot stuff.  I can boot 2.2.5, and -current
> kernel as of ~1 month ago, but every since last week any kernel I build starts
> displaying
> 	RPC timeout for server 0x0
> contiously.  When it should be trying to mount the rootfs.
> 
> I recall someone making a change, but couldn't test it.  Does anyboby 
> remember and can point me in the right direction?

possibly "option BOOTP_COMPAT" in the kernel config file ?

some bootp implementation send the reply to the client's IP and the
latter discards the packet because the IP does not match... the above
option does something to ip_input to make this address accepted again.

	cheers
	luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                  |  Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it    |  Universita' di Pisa
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