Reg AVila boot...

[George Neville-Neil]

On Oct 31, 2012, at 03:52 , Mukunda Haveri <mukunda at 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