Re: Help with MOP network boot install on DECstation 5000/240

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Wed, 2004-07-14 14:51:35 +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.55.0407141446440.27072@jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl>:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > While we are at it. I'll have to re-verify that, but my mopd is loosing
> > file descriptors if you ^A-F your box during a load.
> 
>  Hmm, while I get what you mean, what is "^A-F" specifically?

Sending a break from minicom :)   That is, I just ask the MOP client to
stop loading.

>  Anyway, this may be true -- probably the server is still waiting for
> following requests to come.  A timeout might be a good thing to add.  
> Unfortunately I don't have time to work on mopd ATM.  It would be good to
> do a serious rewrite and I plan to do that in the future.  No established 
> plan, though.

Eventually I'll re-get all the sources and compile again. Adding a
timeout shouldn't be all that hard. It should be a matter of extending
the "connection" table by "last packet's recv/send time" and check this
table entry upon each new request.

>  Another problem which is already known is mopd dying when one of
> interfaces it's listening on goes down.

Haven't seen that, but my interfaces tend to not go down (at least not
until the whole machine goes down...).

MfG, JBG

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