Netbooting 4.8
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Thu Aug 28 07:52:25 PDT 2003
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? 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.
Drew
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