is there a way to trace what is happening on the ethernet connection,
tail -f of /var/log/messages isn't giving me much info on what is going
wrong,
it only says that the client (Classic) is connected to tftp.............
i see no indication of a "whoami" request from rpc.bootparamsd, which
i've started on
another vt to see it's output.......

thanks for your patience/guidance,
don