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 :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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