SUMMARY: ARP/RARP Timeout when trying to Jumpstart

From: <Dan.Burton_at_trilogy.com>
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 12:38:40 EST
There were entries in both /etc/ethers and /etc/bootparams on the jumpstart
server for the same MAC address but a different machine name.  I guess
someone had tried to setup to jumpstart this machine to a different name in
the past, but then hadn't actually done it.

Many thanks to Adam Kirby, Andy Yother, and Todd Urie for the quick
responses.

     -Dan
     dan.burton@trilogy.com
     afreet@artificialmusicmachine.com
     http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com/

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                      Dan.Burton@trilogy.com                                                                                                 
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I've got a 420R that was abandoned by someone else at the company, so I'm
trying to jumpstart it to just clean it up so I can use it.  Anyway, I set
up all the server-side jumpstart stuff, and then booted it with 'boot net -
install', and it reboots, and then I get:

Rebooting with command: boot net - install
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1  File and args: - install
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
.
.
.

And it just times out all day long.  I let it go overnight, because I have
seen it take a while before, but it always got there eventually before.  I
know that it has network connectivity, because if I let it boot normally, I
can ping it. (however, I can't log into it because I don't know what any of
the accounts are, and it looks like it's all messed up anyway - it throws
file system errors all over the place - that's why I'm jumpstarting it).  I
tried manually adding an entry to the arp table on my jumpstart server, but
that didn't seem to help either.  Any ideas?

     -Dan
     dan.burton@trilogy.com
     afreet@artificialmusicmachine.com
     http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com/
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