Subject: Re: Two-stage netboot
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/02/1999 07:57:50
Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > I haven't tried myself, but I believe Matthias Drochner had some
> > (very?) limited success.
>
> The second stage could configure the network with bootp/dhcp,
> so the network stack worked in principle. (DS '240)
> The problem was that it didn't see any ARP replies later.
That is exactly what I have found.
> I don't have real documentation on the PROM - perhaps the
> ARP packets are eaten up there...
Hmmm. I think I have found the memory location of the prom's ARP
table. BTW Simon, the TURBOchannel documentation indirectly mentions
these memory locations.
Regards,
Greg