[rescue] Network problems

[Steve Sandau]

I have noticed may of the SPARCs I have complain about the ethernet port
being down or disabled when they boot. The interfaces then work fine.
Dunno why.

I'd be looking at the rarpd process on the server first. Is tcpdump
looking at IP addresses, or at any mac address at all? Could be that
it's not getting an IP...

Can you figure out what IP address the SS is using? Can you ping it?
Maybe arp on the machine running tcpdump would show up something
interesting?

Larry Snyder wrote:
> 
> I've been bit more than once by trying to over-complicate things.
> You've tried a different cable and hub port, I assume.  Have you
> tried test net with a tpe loopback?  Does the hub see your link integrity
> heartbeat?
> -ls-
> 
> "Shawn Wallbridge" <shawn at maximum-geek.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to net boot a SS20 to install Debian. When I run test net I get
> > failures.
> >
> >       ok test net
> >
> >       Using AUI Ethernet Interface
> >        Internal loopback test -- succeeded.
> >        External loopback test -- Lost Carrier  (transceiver cable problem?)
> >       send failed.
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> > I successfully booted off the network to install Debian yesterday on a
> > different machine. I have checked the config on the bootp/tftp server and
> > everything is fine. I ran tcpdump on another machine on the _hub_ while I
> > was attempting to boot and nothing showed up. I am doing this over a serial
> > console. I can send detailed logs if necessary.
> 
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Steve Sandau
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