Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:00:35 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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: <20020123180035.CB49C3BAB@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020123085434.B1806@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. I had ewa0_mode = FastFD (and ewb0 on dual nic systems). I also tried auto but the switch is wired to 100-full and with it in auto mode it ended up at 100-half. Either way, it didn't make much difference. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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