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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:54:34 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment?
Message-ID:  <20020123085434.B1806@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020122234007.1983E3BAD@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:40:07PM -0800
References:  <3C4DEB7A.59E87BD3@mindspring.com> <20020122234007.1983E3BAD@overcee.wemm.org>

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:40:07PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> I have experimented with alignment in the ethernet frame send code.. it
> seems that we are trying to send with 2-byte alignment for the bootp case.
> Fixing it doesn't seem to make much difference.  However, I wonder if SRM
> is doing some length rounding or something because the lengths are not 4 or
> 8 byte multiples for the bootp queries but are for the working rarp
> queries.  However, even that doesn't make sense because it sometimes works.
> I'm more suspicious of interactions between the tulip cards when being
> driven by SRM and the switch at the moment.

Try setting ewa0_mode=fast in SRM. Maybe that helps. Sometimes
autoneg on SRM just gets it wrong.

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