From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 19 12:38:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zappa.demon.nl (zappa.demon.nl [195.173.232.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F21814C31 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@zappa.demon.nl) Received: from win98 (win98.demon.nl [192.168.1.3]) by zappa.demon.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 769545B82 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:40:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <001001bf4a60$f5ec8ea0$0301a8c0@demon.nl> From: "Ron Klinkien" To: Subject: Re: Got diskless Sun booting from FreeBSD server... Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:38:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to Ian Dowse and Patrick Gardella i got my SPARCclassic booting and running as a nice Xterminal server. ------ cut --- >And a message I got from Ian Dowse said: >I think sometime around 3.0, the networking code in FreeBSD stopped >responding to IP broadcasts where the 'zero' subnet broadcast address, >which in your case is 209.9.69.0. >We currently work around this on some 3.x machines by adding an alias >address (which can be anything, even not in the same subnet) that has >a broadcast address of our subnet zero address. Try something like: >ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 209.9.69.0 alias >Maybe the old behaviour of responding to the subnet zero address should >be available via a sysctl? --- cut --- Among a lot of other things the bug above stopped my kernel from booting... The ifconfig workaround solved that.. All works ok now... I start this manually to keep my Sun booting: #!/bin/sh ifconfig xl0 inet 10.0.0.1 broadcast 192.168.1.0 alias bootparamd xdm -config /xsun/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config xfs Thanks all. Ron. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message