Potato upgrade and Network

[Sebastian Canagaratna <scanagar@canax2.onu.edu>]

Hi:
  I recently upgraded over the network to potato from slink
  and then installed linux 2.2.13. I was having the following
  problem. It would come up with endless messages about
  
    140.228.8.157 sent an invalild ICMP error to a broadcast.

  Also ypbind would not work when it booted up, but afterward I
  would type ypbind on the command line and it would be OK. I
  could use ftp, ping to any machine etc; so clearly the routing
  was OK. I had got rid of route add -net etc. from
  /etc/init.d/network.

  In an attempt to get rid of the messages, I thought the broadcast
  address was wrong and I changed it from 255.255.248.0 to
  255.255.255.0 which is what the HOWTO's always give. When I booted
  up  it would say
  
  Starting NIS servives: ypbind 
  
  and hang indefinitely.

  I thought I would get the rescue disk from ftp.debian.org  ( it is
  for 2.2.12 ) and when I used it  ( using root=dev/hda4 ) it wouldn't
  go further.


  How do I get over this problem?

  Thanks for any suggestions.

  Sebastian Canagaratna