Re: Weird TFTP Problems while booting an SGI Indy

[Gerald Heinig <heinig@ist.rwth-aachen.de>]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> 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

Hmmm... I suppose that tells tftpd to listen _below_ 32768, right? (I'm
not a Linux man myself). Anything _above_ 32767 tickles the Ind[y,igo]
PROM bug.
Hope that works things out for you guys. I'll check that when I get home
tonight.

Gerald