What does your redhat box think the broadcast address is -
	137.112.255.255 or 137.112.203.255 (it should be the former to
	match the 3/60)

-- 
		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Logan Bowers wrote:

> Hello, I have a Sun 3/60 and I'm having problems getting it to netboot
> either the netBSD or the SunOS Xkernel.  In both cases it RARPs, TFTPs,
> an NFS loads the kernel, but then it just starts saying:
>
> RPC timeout waiting for server: 0x8970ffff (actually something
> different, but functionally similar for the SunOS Xkernel)
>
> over and over again.  If I do a TCP dump I can see packets leaving the
> machine:
>
> 01:54:17.443607 eth0 B 137.112.203.252 Broadcast ip 138: xhost.1023 >
> 137.112.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
>
> Any ideas what might be the problem?  NFS, portamapper, mountd, tftpd,
> and bootparamd are all running on a RH7.0 machine.  Also, NFS loading
> the kernel is slow as heck (tcpdump shows it going about 1k/sec), any
> ideas on how to speed that up?  And finally (as if I didn't have enough
> problems already), it asks bootparamd for a file "gateway".  Do I need
> to worry about that?  Thank you.
>
>
> Logan Bowers
>
>