Re: SPARCstation LX boot problem
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:07:03AM -0500, Corey Kovacs wrote:
> Ben, thanx for the offer of help.
>
> In my /etc/ethers I have this...
> XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX machine.depauw.edu
>
> where the X's are the hardware address of the ethernet card in the SPARC.
> and machine.depauw.edu is the name associated with the ip I want to give
> it in dns.
>
> The way I understand it is the machine gets it's name from the rarp request
> then uses dns to do a lookup and get it's ip address, is that right?
No, rarpd does the name lookup, and sends the IP to the machine
requesting it. You should see requests in /var/log/daemon.log (btw, is
this running on an intel or sparc system?).
> I also found out that the office switch I am using to connect the 10Mbps
> SPARC's to the 100Mbps switch is not letting anything through so I have
> to look into that first since that is causing a bigger problem..
Yeah, you need to be able to send/recv broadcasts.
> I have tftp working, I've verified that by comming in from another machine.
> I'm not sure if the link to the tftpboot.img is right though. I have it as
>
> XXXXXXXX.SUN4M
>
> where the X's are the IP address I've given it in hex. I am not sure at all of
> the
> SUN4M extension is right or not since I haven't been able to connect directly to
>
> the tftp server from the SPARC's to create any log entries for debugging.
Should be right depending on the PROM version. You can create another
link without the ".SUN4M" extension to cover all basis.
> So, the short of it is I'll be working on finding out why this little switch is
> not
> working, then back to rarp.
So far, it looks like you understand everything pretty well. Get that
broadcast setup (the switch problem), and you should be good to go.
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