From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 11 23:22:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zabagek.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (zabagek.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5406A14E6A for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 23:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from tg@localhost) by zabagek.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA51619; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:26:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tg) To: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC3000/400 SRM bootp overview References: <199910112118.XAA43196@yedi.iaf.nl> <871zb15ztk.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> From: Thomas Gellekum In-Reply-To: cgd@netbsd.org's message of "11 Oct 1999 14:53:43 -0700" Date: 12 Oct 1999 08:26:37 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > Wilko Bulte writes: > > I just noticed that SRM 6.0 had a timeout problem when booting > > from my Aspen Alpine (EB64+) whereas the same SRM 6.0 worked OK > > booting from my K6-2 box. This leads me to the suspicion that there > > is something *very* timing critical (or something close to that) on > > the later SRM revs. > > the symptom that i noticed when looking into it was that using tcpdump > to watch the packets that were coming out of the alpha would show > packets with bad checksums. (I forget whether they were the bootp or > tftp requests, or whether the bad checksums were the IP or UDP > checksums... It's been a few years... 8-) Same thing here with two 3000/300s. The TFTP packet contains '\0' at the TOS and the first bytes of the file name fields. The firmware rev is 6.5. Where can I get older/working versions? tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message