From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 22 23:55: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28D037B405 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0N7sYl01936; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:54:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:54:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Peter Wemm Cc: Terry Lambert , Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment? Message-ID: <20020123085434.B1806@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3C4DEB7A.59E87BD3@mindspring.com> <20020122234007.1983E3BAD@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020122234007.1983E3BAD@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:40:07PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:40:07PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > I have experimented with alignment in the ethernet frame send code.. it > seems that we are trying to send with 2-byte alignment for the bootp case. > Fixing it doesn't seem to make much difference. However, I wonder if SRM > is doing some length rounding or something because the lengths are not 4 or > 8 byte multiples for the bootp queries but are for the working rarp > queries. However, even that doesn't make sense because it sometimes works. > I'm more suspicious of interactions between the tulip cards when being > driven by SRM and the switch at the moment. Try setting ewa0_mode=fast in SRM. Maybe that helps. Sometimes autoneg on SRM just gets it wrong. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message