On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > 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. I see. I haven't used TFTP on the DECstation ever. I think the default timeout is too low anyway. RFC826 does not specify any timeouts but keeping them below 2 minutes is pointless IMO. If an interface assigned to an IP address changes its MAC address, it will start to use the new one for ARP requests immetiately and all caches in the LAN will have a chance to get updated. > It didnt - I at least let the machine wait for 15-20 Minutes while > digging the code... Weird -- the read should time out after 10000 loops... It definitely needs to be checked. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
