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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