Subject: Re: Netboot fun
To: Alex White <meltlet@fastmail.fm>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/28/2002 13:12:42
Alex White wrote:

> *grin* ok, got that, that worked after a few shuffles. Now it's got to
> the point of trying to get the netbsd image from the tftpd. It seems to
> retry to get the image every 10 secs or so. I get multiple entries of:
> 
> Mar 28 01:24:44 boru in.tftpd[23901]: RRQ from 192.168.1.6 filename
> netbsd.pmax 
> 
> in my syslog, and no effect on the ds. Eventually, the ds gives up. If I
> tftp to the tftpd on the same system, I can happily get the image. It
> takes about 9 seconds to do this. What do I do next? Eep...

Can you use tcpdump (or similar) to make sure that the decstation is
sending a reply for each packet that the tftp server is sending?

Simon.

Simon.
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