Steven Thomas wrote:
> Fed up with the terse logging of tftpd, I installed atftpd. After the
> successful DHCP exchange as before, this daemon logs:
> Jun 11 10:30:52 localhost atftpd[7832]: connect: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Jun 11 10:31:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: connect: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Jun 11 10:32:21 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 11 10:37:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: atftpd terminating after 300
> seconds
> Jun 11 10:37:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: Main thread exiting
>
> Does this give anyone any insight ?
Hi,
Last I checked, atftpd caused all sorts of heartache for the SGI
PROM... I'm not sure that situation has improved at all.
May I suggest using 'tftp-hpa'[1] instead? It is known to work
reliably with the SGI PROM, and while not all that feature rich, it's
reasonably simple to get going. Something like the following should get
things rolling:
( Install tftp-hpa from APT )
# apt-get install tftp-hpa
( Start the TFTP daemon )
# in.tftpd -l -s /path/to/tftpboot -v
( Now watch your logger as you fire up the Indy )
Now in dhcpcd.conf, you need to specify the file your Indy will
download, as well as the IP address that ISC DHCPd will assign to it
(via BOOTP). The entry will need to look something like this:
> # Hostname of the machine (Yeah... mine's named after its codename[2])
> host guinness {
> # MAC address of SGI machine (usually printed on back)
> hardware ethernet 08:00:69:08:db:77;
>
> # IP address of TFTP server
> next-server 10.0.0.251;
>
> # IP address to be given to SGI machine
> fixed-address 10.0.0.3;
>
> # The file to download from the TFTP server, relative to the
> # TFTP root directory (normally /tftpboot)
> filename "/ip22";
> }
Once you've restarted `dhcpd` and got `in.tftpd` running, you should be
set to fire up the Indy.
Hope this helps. :-)
Regards,
--
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Footnotes:
1. http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/tftp-hpa
2. http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
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