Re: Booting from network

["C. Falconer" <criggie@ihug.co.nz>]

Sorry - missed the original on this...

Do you have a rarpd server on the network?  Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 
does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new 
daemon for rarp won't compile for me)


At 08:46 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Koontz <jrkoontz@home.com> writes:
>
>     Jim> When I boot the sparc machine, it displays this message:
>
>     Jim> "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet"
>
>     Jim>
>
>     Jim> Obviously, the server is not seeing the sparc client's
>     Jim> request, but I don't know what else to check.  Does anyone
>     Jim> have any suggestions?
>
> Are you sure the server is not seeing the request? Or perhaps,
> the sparc client cannot see the reply?
>
> Use tcpdump on the server to find out if the server is responding or
> not.
> --
> Brian May <bam@debian.org>
>
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