Subject: Re: Weird RARP packets from boot loader
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: James Robinson @ Work <jrobinson@stisierra.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/31/1998 08:50:59
-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
Cc: port-vax@NetBSD.ORG <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Weird RARP packets from boot loader


>>
>> What happens then is wrong. Boot starts all over again with the RARP,
>> but this time it seems to have forgotten or messed up its ethernet
>> address. The RARP packets that I see on my BeBox have the all-zero
>> ethernet address everywhere where previously they had the real ethernet
>> address: in the ethernet source field, the RARP sender hardware address
>> field and the RARP target hardware address field.
>>
>Yes, this is a bug in the vax standalone le driver. I haven't bothered
>to fix it yet.
>
I have also seen this on my DEC Alpha running Linux 4.2, When you have a fix
PLEASE post it!!!!
Jim