On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jeff wrote:

> Does any one have any ides on this ?
> trying to net boot vax and this is the only error i can find , the vax
> sends out a packet but ther is know reply

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> Apr 18 03:17:22 shad kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> Apr 18 03:20:54 shad mopd[808]: mopd 2.5.3 started.
> Apr 18 03:20:54 shad mopd[808]: Initialized eth0
> Apr 18 03:21:24 shad mopd[808]: not here
> Apr 18 03:24:30 shad mopd[808]: not here
> Apr 18 03:32:03 shad last message repeated 2 times

There was a known problem with 1.4.1 where mopd wouldn't answer the first
request.  Sending subsequent requests worked no problem, tho.  I believe
this problem was found and fixed, but I'm not sure of the current
state.  I don't have the sources in front of me, but I'm a bit curious
about the "not here" messages - you might want to dig around and see what
that's reporting (can't find the file?).

When I was debugging, I found it handy to run mopd with the "-d" option to
see what's going on on the console.

Hope this helps,

-Jon
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