> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Vladimir Sironja <sironja@mail.com>
> 
> Hi Ryan and NetBSD Folks,
> 
> >I have a slab netbooting NetBSD-1.4.2 but the problem is it only >comes
> >up maybe 1 out of 20 times.  Most of the time i get a:
> >
> >...
> >925960enintr: timed out.
> >net_close: calling netif_close()
> >load of en()netbsd: Input/output error
> 
> Yes, i had the same problem.
> After tcpdump-ing the conversation between the next-client and the
> linux-server, i noticed that the kernel-load procedure (?) stops after the
> linuxBox sends an ARP-request asking for the hardware address from next. At
> this point, nextbox doesnt answer and nfs seems to stop.
>
> I manually added the hw-address of the next-box with
> arp -s <next-ip> <xx:xx:xx:....>
> this keeps linux quiet with arp-requests
> and looks like a workaround.

Yes!  Its booted successfully 5 times in a row now.  Thanks for the
tip.

Ryan