On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:24:18PM -0400, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Ok, here's the deal.  For the past 2 days I've been trying to netboot my
> SparcStation4 diskless station off my P100 Slackware 7 Linux box.  I've
> gone through the Diskless howto religiously, scoured backissues of this
> list, and pretty much pulled my hair out trying to make it work :-)
> 
> The sparc loads the bootloader (i've tried both Net and OpenBSD
> bootloaders).  The following output is produced:
> 
> boot: client IP address: 198.166.5.45
> recvrpc: reject, astat=1, errno=1
> bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed

Could you run tcpdump on your linux box and show what messages are
exanged between the two machine ? ('tcpdump -s 500' to be sure to have enouth
infos).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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