Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:37:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooting broken (for me at least) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005230935450.73457-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000522154920.A9453@panzer.kdm.org>
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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
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