On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

| > I'm trying to install on a B&W G3.  I set up a PowerPC 9150 running
| > MkLinux as a bootp/tftp/nfs server, just like in the instructions in
| > the Diskless HOWTO.  However, when I try to netboot the G3, I get
| > the following:
| > 
| > 0 > boot enet:0
| > CLIENT: 0050e4860523 128.253.253.26
| > SERVER: 0005020008da 128.253.253.132 dionysus.cogstud.cornell.edu
| > Transfer FILE: /ofwboot.elf
| > OBP-TFTP stats: pkts-read=413 pkts-flushed=0 bootp-rtrys=0 tftp-rtrys=72 udp-cks=13 tftp-errs=33
| > OBP-TFTP stats: pkts-read=442 pkts-flushed=0 bootp-rtrys=0 tftp-rtrys=78 udp-cks=14 tftp-errs=39
| > OBP-TFTP stats: pkts-read=473 pkts-flushed=0 bootp-rtrys=0 tftp-rtrys=84 udp-cks=15 tftp-errs=44
| > OBP-TFTP stats: pkts-read=506 pkts-flushed=0 bootp-rtrys=0 tftp-rtrys=90 udp-cks=16 tftp-errs=44 TFTP TimeOutload-size=0 adler32=1
| 
| That's a LOT of retrys... I usually don't get any such messages when
| booting my G3. Is your net ok?

I think so.  The bootp request is getting through ok, it's just tftp that it's
timing out on.  But I tested the tftpd from a third computer, and that worked
ok--it transferred /tftpboot/netbsd just fine, with no timeouts.
Also, in /var/log/messages I have a lot of "tftpd[743]: tftpd: trying to get file:
/netbsd" messages but no corresponding "serving file from /tftpboot" messages.
?!?!?!?


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