From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 11 14:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.netbsd.org (redmail.netbsd.org [155.53.200.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D95115276 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cgd@netbsd.org) Received: (qmail 23628 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Oct 1999 21:53:43 -0000 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC3000/400 SRM bootp overview References: <199910112118.XAA43196@yedi.iaf.nl> From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:53:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: Wilko Bulte's message of Mon, 11 Oct 1999 23:18:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <871zb15ztk.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > I just noticed that SRM 6.0 had a timeout problem when booting > from my Aspen Alpine (EB64+) whereas the same SRM 6.0 worked OK > booting from my K6-2 box. This leads me to the suspicion that there > is something *very* timing critical (or something close to that) on > the later SRM revs. the symptom that i noticed when looking into it was that using tcpdump to watch the packets that were coming out of the alpha would show packets with bad checksums. (I forget whether they were the bootp or tftp requests, or whether the bad checksums were the IP or UDP checksums... It's been a few years... 8-) > Chris, as I understand it you had NetBSD booting using bootp from SRM. > Or did you use MOP maybe? IIRC NetBSD can do MOP boot serving. bootp. cgd -- Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message