[syslinux] tftp-hpa to boot aix

[richard turner]

arp -s <client ip address> <client mac address>

seems to have fixed the problem. it appears tftp is very sensitive if
interruption occurs during the transfer. The interruption is caused by
dynamic arp requests.

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:37, richard turner wrote:
> is there additional information that i may provide you? a more detailed
> tcpdump with real packet trace? if so, how would i produce this
> information for you?
> 
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:20, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > richard turner wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > 
> > >>richard turner wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>here is the tcpdump output. the last pair of lines continue to repeat
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>That's saying you had a successful transfer.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > i agree that there is a successful transfer of packets. however, it does
> > > not appear that the entire file is being tranferred. only 4200 packets
> > > of 15227 that should be transferred are actually transferred. what could
> > > be causing it to stop? currupt file? has there been any success using
> > > tftp-hpa to boot aix bootimages?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't know, and my point was that by not producing a real packet trace
> >  (which actually contains the packet contents) and instead just publish
> > a (censored) tcpdump log, I have absolutely no way to help resolve this
> > issue.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
> > 
> > 
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