From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 81C85482A for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:13:45 -0700 (MST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Helge Deller To: Richard Hirst , Tommi Aihkisalo Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Network bootproblem with 712/80 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:10:58 +0100 Cc: parisc References: <1008318270.3c19b73ecfadb@nyepost.start.no> <000b01c184a9$3f00a1b0$7862bc82@ele.vtt.fi> <20011220151554.L1897@linuxcare.com> In-Reply-To: <20011220151554.L1897@linuxcare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20011220231345.81C85482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:15, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Tommi Aihkisalo wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > I am having a problem with my 712/80 when booting with bootp/tftp. With > > some effort I got it requesting kernel image (lifimage) over the network. > > The download starts but almost the same time it ends and it retries it > > over and over again. With Weird-solution's bootp and tftp server I can > > see that the download starts many times but all of them results error. > > When using the RedHat's bootp/tftp, the tcpdump shows (what I have > > understood from the output) that the HP is querying a file of name '.' > > (dot), this is quite strange... Hi Tommi, did you tried the newest versions of tftp-server on RH ? AFAIR the tftp-servers in 7.0 and 7.1 were broken and I fixed them during my time at RedHat. Greetings, Helge