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Dear all,

I am having problems trying to boot my sparcstation 5 in diskless mode, 
from a machine running mac os x 10.3. I have followed all the 
instructions at 
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.sun.html 
which go over explanations in a lot of detail, but I still can't get it 
to work. For the moment, I would be happy if the log for the tftp 
server said anything about being contacted by the sparcstation, but it 
doesn't go that far .... so I thought the problem must be at the rarpd 
stage.

What I have done:

-added the client to the NetInfo database:

#nicl . -create /machines/client ip_address 192.168.0.10

-set up the ethers and host files:

/etc/ethers:
8:0:20:7a:ba:8d client

/etc/hosts:
192.168.0.10    client

And then, run rarpd, which only says "got a packet" many times when I 
"boot net" with the sparcstation.
Checking things with tcpdump, I get:

17:11:49.752023 client > Broadcast, ethertype Reverse ARP (0x8035), 
length 68: rarp who-is client tell client

until I turn off the sparcstation. Is there anything I missed out which 
would prevent rarpd from attributing an IP to the sparcstation? Also, 
how does the host have to be set up network wise? I connected the host 
and the sparc directly with an ethernet cable, and gave the arbitraty 
address of 192.168.0.1 to the host. Is there any other necessary 
setting?

Thank you in advance for any help!

  -Matthis
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Dear all, 


I am having problems trying to boot my sparcstation 5 in diskless
mode, from a machine running mac os x 10.3. I have followed all the
instructions at
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.sun.html
which go over explanations in a lot of detail, but I still can't get
it to work. For the moment, I would be happy if the log for the tftp
server said anything about being contacted by the sparcstation, but it
doesn't go that far .... so I thought the problem must be at the rarpd
stage.


What I have done: 


-added the client to the NetInfo database:


<bold><fontfamily><param>Courier</param><x-tad-bigger>#nicl . -create
/machines/client ip_address 192.168.0.10</x-tad-bigger></fontfamily></bold>


-set up the ethers and host files:


/etc/ethers:

8:0:20:7a:ba:8d client


/etc/hosts:

192.168.0.10    client


And then, run rarpd, which only says "got a packet" many times when I
"boot net" with the sparcstation.

Checking things with tcpdump, I get:


17:11:49.752023 client > Broadcast, ethertype Reverse ARP (0x8035),
length 68: rarp who-is client tell client


until I turn off the sparcstation. Is there anything I missed out
which would prevent rarpd from attributing an IP to the sparcstation?
Also, how does the host have to be set up network wise? I connected
the host and the sparc directly with an ethernet cable, and gave the
arbitraty address of 192.168.0.1 to the host. Is there any other
necessary setting?


Thank you in advance for any help!


 -Matthis
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