Matthias Drochner wrote:

> nero@in-design.com said:
> > nfs_boot: bootparam whoami, error=60
> > ...
> > is this a bootparam prob or nfs?
>
> It's the bootparam problem. The log messages obviously
> only contain transactions of the machine's PROM.
>
> Strange - the kernel should do the same, but not
> even a request is logged on the server.
>
> Can you try to start the tcpdump a bit earlier?
> (And get some more of the packets (-xx).)
>
> best regards
> Matthias

Here is the full tcpdump text:

18:33:06.880000 rarp who-is markus.sgi.net tell markus.sgi.net
18:33:06.880000 rarp reply markus.sgi.net at markus.sgi.net
18:33:06.880000 markus.sgi.net.8551 > caligula.sgi.net.tftp: 23 RRQ
"AC108033.SUN4M"
18:33:06.980000 caligula.sgi.net.1027 > markus.sgi.net.8551: udp 516
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.
.
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18:33:07.560000 markus.sgi.net.8551 > caligula.sgi.net.1027: udp 4
18:33:08.500000 rarp reply markus.sgi.net at markus.sgi.net
18:33:08.600000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:08.620000 caligula.sgi.net.sunrpc > markus.sgi.net.1023: udp 68
18:33:08.720000 arp who-has caligula.sgi.net tell markus.sgi.net
18:33:08.720000 arp reply caligula.sgi.net is-at caligula.sgi.net
18:33:08.720000 markus.sgi.net.1022 > caligula.sgi.net.650: udp 80
18:33:08.720000 caligula.sgi.net.650 > markus.sgi.net.1022: udp 88
18:33:08.830000 markus.sgi.net.1021 > caligula.sgi.net.sunrpc: udp 76
18:33:08.830000 caligula.sgi.net.sunrpc > markus.sgi.net.1021: udp 28
18:33:08.840000 markus.sgi.net.1021 > caligula.sgi.net.723: udp 84
18:33:08.840000 caligula.sgi.net.723 > markus.sgi.net.1021: udp 60
18:33:08.840000 markus.sgi.net.1021 > caligula.sgi.net.sunrpc: udp 76
18:33:08.850000 caligula.sgi.net.sunrpc > markus.sgi.net.1021: udp 28
18:33:08.850000 markus.sgi.net.6 > caligula.sgi.net.nfs: 104 lookup
[|nfs]
18:33:08.850000 caligula.sgi.net.nfs > markus.sgi.net.6: reply ok 128
lookup [|nfs]
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.
.
18:33:21.940000 caligula.sgi.net.nfs > markus.sgi.net.2141: reply ok 368
read [|nfs]
18:33:32.820000 rarp who-is markus.sgi.net tell markus.sgi.net
18:33:32.820000 rarp reply markus.sgi.net at markus.sgi.net
18:33:32.950000 arp who-has markus.sgi.net tell markus.sgi.net
18:33:32.980000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:33.970000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:35.970000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:38.970000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:42.970000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:48.060000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:53.150000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
18:33:58.240000 markus.sgi.net.1023 > 172.16.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96



I deleted the repeated lines and replaced them with dots (.)
Here is the syslog:

Sep  3 18:32:48 caligula kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Sep  3 18:33:06 caligula tftpd[1146]: tftpd: trying to get file:
AC108033.SUN4M
Sep  3 18:33:06 caligula tftpd[1146]: tftpd: serving file from
/export/client/root
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula rpc.bootparamd: whoami got question for
172.16.128.51
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula rpc.bootparamd: This is host markus.sgi.net
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula rpc.bootparamd: Returning markus
172.16.128.50
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula rpc.bootparamd: getfile got question for
"markus" and file "root"
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula rpc.bootparamd: returning server:172.16.128.50
path:/export/client/root address: 172.16.128.50
Sep  3 18:33:08 caligula mountd[971]: authenticated mount request from
markus.sgi.net:1021
Sep  3 18:34:15 caligula kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode


If anyone can tell what is going on here please point me in the general
direction.
Thanks
Tamer