Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:08:40 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Cc: jerry@kcis.com Subject: Diskless Sun 3/80 (Xkernel) Message-ID: <199603260008.BAA21707@tetard.frmug.fr.net>
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A couple of months back I was happily using my old 3/80 as an X terminal
diskless off FreeBSD. After a while, something changed in -current, and it
didn't work anymore -- I took a look at tcpdump, and it appeared that the
3/80 was broadcasting on xxx.xxx.xxx.0, and not 255.
Ifconfig on FreeBSD gives me:
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 193.56.58.141 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 193.56.58.255
... So I decide to change broadcast to .0 to try it out. The 3/80 boots,
but it still causes other problems (Xdm, etc...)
Are there any options, BSD-side, to force the interface to recognize both
broadcast addresses ?
Is this configurable from the Sun itself (PROM ?), as fixing it AFTER the
kernel's booted gives me a great chicken and egg problem.
I'll be adding more info what Jerry Kendall's already written soon
regarding diskless setups.
-- Phil
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