From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 23 1:31:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218BE37BC59; Tue, 23 May 2000 01:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12uA6E-0004N1-0U; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:31:40 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA71581; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:37:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:37:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: alpha@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooting broken (for me at least) In-Reply-To: <20000522154920.A9453@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 May 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > I've got a DEC 3000/300 box that netboots off another alpha. > > PHK's recent change to bootp_subr broke netbooting for me: > > ... > > Backing bootp_subr.c to rev 1.20 (the one before PHK's change) fixes > netbooting for me. > > Should I change something in my configuration to get it to work again, or > is there something wrong with the change? It seems possible that the bootp server might be at fault here. I would suggest debugging the bootp server to see why it can't fit its reply into 1200 bytes. Either the client is sending a garbled message with a bad size field or the server has problems - it will be easy to see which using gdb on the server. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message