Subject: Re: status of MOP protocol?
To: Mats O Jansson <maja@celsiustech.se>
From: Ken Wellsch <kcwellsc@math.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/18/1996 13:27:49
> There is one known problem for the moment, it can't load my VS2000. I think
> it's depending on a bad implementation of MOP in the boot rom of the VS2000,
> all requests are sent in less that a second, all other implementation I've
> seen sends requests with seconds apart. One solution might be to filter out
> request comming to fast and just process the first. But it's not at top of
> my list (and hasn't been for a long time).

I guess I am lucky, the VS2000 I tried produced this (on a sun3):

Script started on Fri May 17 19:25:03 1996

(I did ">>> B ESA0" on the VS2000 with hardware address 08:00:2B:04:7E:B2)

kcw# tcpdump -vv
tcpdump: listening on ie0
00:25:32.330001 8:0:2b:4:7e:b2 ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 64: 
                         0b00 0805 0102 0000 9101 0206 0401 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101
00:26:00.980001 8:0:2b:4:7e:b2 ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 64: 
                         0b00 0805 0102 0000 9101 0206 0401 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101
00:26:29.630001 8:0:2b:4:7e:b2 ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 64: 
                         0b00 0805 0102 0000 9101 0206 0401 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101
00:26:58.270001 8:0:2b:4:7e:b2 ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 64: 
                         0b00 0805 0102 0000 9101 0206 0401 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101 0101
                         0101
^C
4 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
kcw# ^D
Script done on Fri May 17 19:27:27 1996