[H-GEN] Ethernet troubles

[Robert Brockway]

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Bruce said:
:> At this point, can I also point out that NFS is slightly broken on Linux
:> boxes.  Just like tftp, it is somewhat borked when talking to any
:> operating system other than linux.  Not to mention my favourite, Linux

In my experience, nfs can be a bit platform specific, which is a pity.

:> vt100 != *BSD vt100 == Most OSs vt100 != Windoze vt100 .

Indeed :)  I've had the most problems win vs non-win of course.  i've
never met a windows based vt100 implementation that I liked.  I must admit
to never having had huge problem on different unix OSes - ok occassionally
:)

Christopher Preston <c.preston at chemistry.uq.edu.au> wrote:
: Bruce, 

: tftp can't be all that broken. I have a Decstation 5000 and a Xyplex
: terminal server happily netbooting via tftp.

I'd agree here.  I've used Linux tftp many times before and had never run
into a problem until last night.  It seems there may be 2 slightly
incompatible implementations of tftp perhaps (without either being
particularly more broken than the other - perhaps they both are). This
would kinda suck.

To be honest the weird tcpdump info I posted suggested to me a more low
level problem.

: I can't comment on NFS, although the decstation does do NFS root fs ok.

Unfortunately these particular Xterms don't seem to understand the concept
of nfs booting which is kinda pity.

Looks like I have my reason to install FreeBSD on zen :)
Rob

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