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On Oct 31, 2012, at 03:52 , Mukunda Haveri <mukunda@pointred.co> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to get a FreeBSD system up on an Avila board. I  got =
through
> the initial boot stages [ though I am not sure if my settings for NPE =
0/1,
> A,B, C ) settings are proper ], but currently, I have a severe problem
> getting through the NFS mounting problem through DHCP. I run a DHCP =
server
> on Windows (tftpd32) and it rejects the discover packet as too long =
(1520
> bytes). I can dig in an change the packet size in the kernel. But I =
suspect
> that there is something more to it. Is there any specific DHCP / NFS =
server
> that I should be using. Please help me.

No specific server, but some drivers have been found to pad packets =
incorrectly.

Can you give more details on this board, and on which network driver it =
is using?

Also, a packet capture (tcpdump with -s 0 to get the full packet) is =
always helpful
in debugging network problems.

Best,
George