On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 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.
IIRC the kernel refreshes the timeout on communication - But only on
TCP not UDP ...
> > 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.
Did this change lately - The kernel of the boot-floppies is a little
old.
Flo
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