/etc/ethers is probably screwed up. It looks like boot params wants your 
machine to get IP address of 10.10.10.6 but someone had already given the 
machine an address of 10.10.10.22 before then. Also see if /etc/rc.conf 
doesn't reconfigure the interface to the "wrong" address....
--Chuck


At 01:05 PM 9/5/00 +0200, Thorsten Jens wrote:
>Hi *!
>
>I tried to netboot my VAXserver 3100 from my Linux machine today,
>strictly following the Netboot-HOWTO. Everything goes fine until the
>point where tha VAX console says:
>
>---------------------
>[...]
>sd2: 510 MB, 1872 cyl, 7 head, 79 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1046206 sectors
>boot device: le0
>root on le0
>nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
>nfs_boot: client_addr=10.10.10.22 (RARP from 10.10.10.6)
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: timeout...
>nfs_boot: bootparam whoami, error=60
>no file system for le0
>cannot mount root, error = 79
>root device (default le0):
>---------------------
>
>The bootparamd on my machine says:
>---------------------
>[...]
>getfile got question for "server3100" and file "root"
>returning server:cel400 path:/mnt/extra/export/vax/root address: 10.10.10.6
>---------------------
>
>And I am getting messages from the nfsd in my syslog:
>---------------------
>[...]
>Sep  5 12:31:47 cel400 mountd[1443]: NFS mount of 
>/mnt/extra/export/vax/root attempted from 10.10.10.22
>Sep  5 12:31:47 cel400 mountd[1443]: /mnt/extra/export/vax/root has been 
>mounted by 10.10.10.22
>[...]
>---------------------
>
>What could be wrong?
>
>Thorsten
>--
>exit
>quit
>zz
>^C