[H-GEN] Ethernet troubles

[Ben Fowler]

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Hi all.  I recently acquired (for free) 2 Tektronix xp10 Xterminals.  I
> set them up on my home coax network (Its always worked ok up until now...)
> 
> Anyway I gleefully set them up and got the Xserver downloading using tftp.
> I've done all this numerous times before and never had the problem
> below...
> 
> At between 40% and 80% the tftp d/l stops and eventually timesout.
> 
> I did the usual and trimmed stuff off the net so that only the Xterm and
> the boot server remained, thus:
> 
 :
 :
>
> Everything appears properly shielded and in any case there is no common
> element.
 [snip]

when I recently got my hands on one of these terminals, I started trying
to boot via NFS, and it took me only a few minutes (bar stupid mistakes)
to get my terminal booting flawlessly.  

perhaps trying NFS instead of TFTP might make the problem mysteriously go
away?  I know that this approach isn't terribly scientific, but you
never know :)

Ben.


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