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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:14:10 -0600
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbooting 4.8
Message-ID:  <20030828151410.GC73438@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <16206.5920.737286.654120@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <20030828064336.GA70254@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <16206.5920.737286.654120@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:52:16AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Greg Lewis writes:
> 
>  > bootpc_init: wired to interface 'de0'
>  > Sending DHCP discover packet from interface de0 (00:00:f8:06:5f:f3)
>  > DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255
>  > 
>  > and the last line just repeats ad infinitum.
>  > 
> 
> Do you see the dhcp requests/responses coming across the wire if you
> run tcpdump on the server?

I'll check into it tonight.  My recollection from the DHCP logs is that
the initial query from SRM comes in and gets a reply but that its not
seeing these requests from the kernel.

> If not, the de0 interface often fails to
> autoneg properly, but it should listen to speed/duplex hints from the
> firmware.  Try hardcoding the speed/duplex settings via the ewa0_mode
> variable.

Thanks for the tip!  I'm interested in why it works with Net/Open though.
Maybe I can research that once I get things up and running :).

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