From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 25 23:59:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18421 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18413 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id IAA16698 ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:58:47 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id IAA24667 ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:58:44 +0100 Received: (uucp@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) with UUCP id CAA19468; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:45:57 +0100 Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.frmug.fr.net (8.7.5/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id BAA21707; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:08:42 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199603260008.BAA21707@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Diskless Sun 3/80 (Xkernel) To: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:08:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: jerry@kcis.com X-rene: Tu dois pas les avoir perdues, normalement. X-wing-fighter: et puis X-men, X-open, X-ta-mere... X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A couple of months back I was happily using my old 3/80 as an X terminal diskless off FreeBSD. After a while, something changed in -current, and it didn't work anymore -- I took a look at tcpdump, and it appeared that the 3/80 was broadcasting on xxx.xxx.xxx.0, and not 255. Ifconfig on FreeBSD gives me: ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 193.56.58.141 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 193.56.58.255 ... So I decide to change broadcast to .0 to try it out. The 3/80 boots, but it still causes other problems (Xdm, etc...) Are there any options, BSD-side, to force the interface to recognize both broadcast addresses ? Is this configurable from the Sun itself (PROM ?), as fixing it AFTER the kernel's booted gives me a great chicken and egg problem. I'll be adding more info what Jerry Kendall's already written soon regarding diskless setups. -- Phil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "I'm hom-- *AUGH!*" (Calvin)