Subject: Re: NetBSD netbooting on Sun problems.
To: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@mimosa.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/07/1997 07:41:37 
> >> NetBSD netboot [$Revision: 1.5 $]
> Using IP Address [correct client IP address] = [same in hex]
> boot: client addr: [correct client IP address]
> netif_get: timeout; resetting
> netif_get: timeout; resetting
> netif_get: timeout; resetting
> netif_get: timeout; resetting
> bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed

What I would suggest is having some machine - a third machine, if
possible - sniff the wire with etherfind or tcpdump or moral equivalent
to see what's _really_ happening, to see whether it's the client or the
server that's at fault.

					der Mouse

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