Hmmm...  Try adding this to your bootparm line: 
gateway=10.1.1.1:0xffffff00
to give your machine a netmask.  


Logan Bowers

Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:40:27PM -0500, Logan Bowers wrote:
> > You need to set your broadcast address to 255.255.255.255 on you server
> > machine.  If you look at the tcpdump, the bootparm requests are being
> > sent there.
> 
> This sounds more like a hack than a solution.
> The interface has the right broadcast configured and I need to keep
> this for not breaking rwhod & co.
> 255.255.255.255 is an implied broadcast for every ip machine.
> If that is disabled per default there should be a knob to reenable.
> 
> But in fact the ip itself works fine:
> ticso@cicely21# ping 255.255.255.255
> PING 255.255.255.255 (255.255.255.255): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.23: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.446 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.22: icmp_seq=0 DUP! ttl=255 time=4.254 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.9: icmp_seq=0 DUP! ttl=255 time=5.932 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.24: icmp_seq=0 DUP! ttl=255 time=7.181 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.1.1.43: icmp_seq=0 DUP! ttl=255 time=8.451 ms
> [...]
> 
> >From what I see is that either bootparamd or rpcbind are failing
> to handle these IPs.
> 
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