From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 23 10: 0:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C89F37B402 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020123180036.DYOL3578.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org> for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:00:36 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0NI0as19812 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:00:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB49C3BAB; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:00:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Terry Lambert , Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment? In-Reply-To: <20020123085434.B1806@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:00:35 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020123180035.CB49C3BAB@overcee.wemm.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 Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. I had ewa0_mode = FastFD (and ewb0 on dual nic systems). I also tried auto but the switch is wired to 100-full and with it in auto mode it ended up at 100-half. Either way, it didn't make much difference. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message