Subject: Netbooting question (wrong netmask!)
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Sprag Johnson <bdwheele@indiana.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/16/1999 10:17:27
I'm trying to netboot one of the vaxstations I got and it seems to be
using the wrong netmask.  Here's what seems to be working:

mopd loads the loader ok.
there's a big transfer (nfs?) ending with the words "total: " and some
hex number.

After that, it hangs with this:

10:12:58.521846 eth0 B rarp who-is heavy tell heavy
10:12:58.659999 eth0 B arp who-has heavy.educ.indiana.edu tell heavy.educ.indiana.edu
10:12:58.665209 eth0 B heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96 
[repeat ad nauseum]


The thing is, the university has subnetted the 129.79.0.0 network, so
the netmask should be 255.255.255.0 instead of 255.255.0.0

Any thoughts how to tell the booter this?

Brian Wheeler
bdwheele@indiana.edu