Netbooting 4.8

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:52:16AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Greg Lewis writes:
> 
>  > bootpc_init: wired to interface 'de0'
>  > Sending DHCP discover packet from interface de0 (00:00:f8:06:5f:f3)
>  > DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
>  > 
>  > and the last line just repeats ad infinitum.
>  > 
> 
> Do you see the dhcp requests/responses coming across the wire if you
> run tcpdump on the server?

I'll check into it tonight.  My recollection from the DHCP logs is that
the initial query from SRM comes in and gets a reply but that its not
seeing these requests from the kernel.

> If not, the de0 interface often fails to
> autoneg properly, but it should listen to speed/duplex hints from the
> firmware.  Try hardcoding the speed/duplex settings via the ewa0_mode
> variable.

Thanks for the tip!  I'm interested in why it works with Net/Open though.
Maybe I can research that once I get things up and running :).

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