[syslinux] tftp-hpa to boot aix
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 2 17:22:11 PST 2003
richard turner wrote:
> 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.
>
This sounds like a boot firmware bug on the AIX client. It probably
doesn't know how to answer ARP requests once it has already started the
transfer.
-hpa
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