NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/admin/8225

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Acheson)
Subject: Help with diskLESS nodes, 2 3/60s off a 4/110.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: 3/60s dont get their IP address from the 4/110.
Keywords: Help, no boot, sigh.
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Organization: Walt Disney Imagineering
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:19:02 GMT
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OK, I setup a small net with a SUN 4/110 and two 3/60s.  The 3/60s are
diskless (No disks at all) and they are supposed to boot from the 4/110.

Obviously they are not.  I have set up the files necessary, ethers, hosts,
etc. The rarpd and bootparamd are running.  The client directories are
setup and the /tftpboot is correctly configured with their hex IP address
boot files.  tftpd is listening under inetd.  The client software was
installed from CD-ROM (4.1.1) with add_service, and setup with add_client.


With all of that checked and re-checked, the 3/60s don't even get an IP
address.  I have run etherfind on the 4/110 to see what is coming across
the wire, and the machines are RARPing for their address, and the address
checks out in the ethers file.  I don't have any other ethernet devices to
put on the net, so I can't check to see if the SUN is responding.

The response from etherfind is that it has received an old style broadcast,
is what you would expect from a SUN.  But I don't think the 4/110 is
responding to the 3/60s.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I realize that it
is probably something stupid, but it has been five years since I setup
diskless 3/60s.  So I'll plead temporary stupidity.

Thanks,

Steve