On Tue, 2001-11-27 13:49:30 +0100, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> wrote in message <20011127134930.A7022@paradigm.rfc822.org>: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > At least this should be mentioned: > > > > > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time > > > > Is it needed for TFTP? What for? > > The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From > kernel 2.2 on the arp entries expire faster which lets the tftp download > fail somewhere in the middle. Provide a static ARP entry. Won't expire ever:-) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw . jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 http://lug-owl.de/~jbglaw/software/snapshot2cvs/