Re: Weird TFTP Problems while booting an SGI Indy
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:22:12PM +0200, Gerald Heinig wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm doing the Indigo R4000 port of NetBSD and ran into exactly this
> problem. There's a bug in the Indy/Indigo PROM that only allows tftp
> transfers below 32767. All ports above 32767 don't work. Either hack
> tftpd to respond to ports <= 32767 or set the appropriate kernel
> variables. There's an Irix problem report about this in their archives
> somewhere. If anyone's interested, I'll dig it out.
Ah - that should be /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
(flo@paradigm)~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
1024 4999
This should be fixable by
echo 32768 50000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
Flo
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